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Funny, a tech writer in San Jose, CA told me once that at least in Silicon
Valley "any tech writer worth his/her salt knows FrameMaker." Here in
Florida, I have noticed a lot of people use Word, but we use FrameMaker at
this company.
Barry Kiefer wrote:
> Yes, I agree, polls are fun and I almost always want to be among the
> counted. :-)
>
> I answered this poll, and was a little surprised. From what I
> have read,
> Microsoft Word is the predominate authoring tool with
> something like a 95%
> usage among technical writers - not because the technical
> writer choose
> Word, but because of a corporate decision.
>
> Regards,
>
> Barry Kieffer
> Senior Technical Writer
>
