Re: The case against M$ Word

[Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl -at- LivernoisYards -dot- com>]

Combs, Richard wrote:
> Apparently you're unfamiliar with the significant development that went
> into FM 8 and the new Technical Communication Suite (I think I called it
> Technical Publishing Suite earlier; sorry). You don't rewrite the entire
> FM core code to support Unicode and then upgrade and integrate multiple
> applications to create a suite unless you intend to profit from that
> work for a long time. 
>
> FM and the TCS will be around for the foreseeable future. That will
> become even clearer when FM 9 and TPS 2 ship. :-)
>
> Richard
>   

Perhaps, however the coding effort for FM8 or 9 is mostly reusable if 
it's incorporated into In Design CSx. Bundling FM and ID would make more 
sense for my purposes. But again, there are so many similarities between 
the two--except for the fewer and fewer functions that InDesign yet 
cannot do.

When FM 9 is introduced, will Adobe still afford it a third-world-nation 
status on its Web site then? Even during its market launch?

Gary

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