RE: InDesign and Frame

["Peter Ring" <pri@xxxxxx>]

Now, metaphors are open to interpretation, which is why 
we use them. I take it that Dan regards MS Word as 
outdated, brittle, and barely functional.

I live in a mixed emacs+psgml / FramerMaker+SGML / MS Word 
environment. We tend to use emacs+psgml for hands-on control 
of SGML documents, FrameMaker+SGML for editing large documents, 
pagination and publishing, and MS Word for general office tasks. 
We used to rely a lot more on MS Word and Word Basic or VBA for 
various document conversion tasks, but this is phased out in 
favour of Perl, Python, and OmniMark scripts. We've recently 
begun using the FDK to supplement or replace formatting rules 
in EDDs.

And I forgot that Marketing uses Quark and Pagemaker for 
various colour jobs (adds and leaflets).

Scolding a Microsoft product doesn't make FrameMaker any 
better. If a document is mostly text and not too large, 
I'd prefer Word any time for editing the text. If I need to 
edit SGML documents and I don't have the time or inclination 
to develop an EDD, emacs+psgml wins hands down (which is 
actually most of the time). Obviously, FrameMaker is not an 
universal panacea.

Compared to MS Word, FrameMaker really is late 70' Russian 
heavy bulldozer. No task too large, but inconvenient for most 
small tasks.

It *is* possible to make heavy publishing more accommodating. 
If only Corel would take Ventura seriously, Adobe would meet 
some real competition.

BTW, to what kind of vehicle would you compare the combination 
of emacs+psgml, Jade, and TeX? 


Kind regards

Peter Ring

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com]On Behalf
> Of Dan Emory
> Sent: 12. marts 1999 05:45
> To: Lindsey Thomas Martin; Tom Regner
> Cc: framers@omsys.com; framers@frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: InDesign and Frame
> 
> 
> I prefer to think of MS Weird as a Yugo.


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