RE: Writing tools: Quark, FrameMaker and others
From: Steve Shepard <STEVES -at- YARDI -dot- com>
Reply-To: Steve Shepard <STEVES -at- YARDI -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Subject: RE: Writing tools: Quark, FrameMaker and others
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:58:21 -0800
> I've just started to get acquainted with FrameMaker (coming
> from Word 2000) and find FrameMaker very awkward and difficult
> to use. In my humble opinion, it is not very intuitive and
> the learning curve is very steep indeed! An additional problem
> is the documentation that, again im my humble opinion, is
> utter crap! There are no straightforward tutorials, there
> is not straightforward information at all, everything is kept
> very general and there are no detailed instructions on how to
> do certain things, e.g. how to change a template. For example,
> coming from Word, I expected the templates to have a different
> extension, but they don't have one, they're just documents...
> At the moment I am not a very happy bunny and have to force
> myself to go back to learning FrameMaker every morning. :-(
Hang in there. It gets better. Before long you hate it every time you have
to use Word for something.
Yeah, now if only you could drag and drop, and add a line to a table just by hitting Tab in the last cell...it would be a dream!
Maggie Secara
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