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Subject:Re: response to FrameMaker comme From:"Barbara J. Philbrick" <burkbrick -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 May 1994 22:51:56 EDT
BP> 4. File lookup takes a while to get used to - I'm a
BP> DOS/Windows person, and I think Frame is using Unix
BP> standards; directory names appear after the file names.
RF> I don't understand what you mean by this? I am running DOS
RF> version and I don't see where the directory names are after
RF> the file names?
I just checked - this was a FM3 problem; FM4 made things more Windows
standard.
BP> Frame uses Word/Pagemaker standards for templates - each
BP> document has a separate stylesheet/template. This is difficult
BP> for me to get used to; usually I'm making changes that should
BP> affect all of the documents using the stylesheet.
RF>Not sure what you are trying to say exactly, but I use a master
RF>style file and make all of my style changes in that file. I then
RF>use the Import > Formats feature to apply the style file to each
RF>of my chapters.Or you could make the changes in the files
RF>themselves.
This is a good idea (and something I should and will start doing). It's still
a pain (especially on a ten chapter document) to have to import the change to
every chapter.
BP>7. Spell checker needs some work - it doesn't have an obvious
BP> skip option. For instance, occasionally I have two words in a
BP> row that need to be that way, and you have to select Continue
BP> (if I remember correctly) to skip it.
RF>Under options you could turn off repeated words. Then it would
RF> skip those repeated words for you.
Yes, except I do want it to check for other repeated words.
BP>8. Frame uses reference and master pages, which are OK,
BP>but take some getting used to. However, they also have a
BP> reference pages feature, but it didn't work as I expected it to -
BP> I couldn't put drawings I was using throughout the document
BP> in this.
RF>If you want graphics to display on every page or certain types
RF> of pages, you would put the graphic on the master page -
RF> not the reference page. The reference page is for rules and to
RF> define index and TOC stuff.
I was trying to put graphics in it that I wanted to use repeatedly (but not
always in the same spot on the page) through out a document. For instance, I
was using a caution icon to the left of caution text. In Ventura, you can do
this easily by using the same frame anchor name in each spot. I haven't found
an easy way to do it in Frame (other than copying). By the way, how do you
use the reference pages for index and TOC stuff? is it somewhere in the
manual? I was just crabbing to Mike about the lack of automatic titles in
Frame.
BP>13. Fractions are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve (to
BP> paraphrase from Lyle Lovett). You have to "microposition"
BP> numbers to get them into fraction form.
RF>I would think that the Equation editor would do fractions.
Let me clarify - it does do a nice job with separate line or complicated
fractions. However, I wanted to do
things like 7/16, and other fractions that aren't in the ASCII set, in
fraction form in a line of text. This is simple to do in Ventura and they
look nice. Frame's technical support told me I would have to microposition
numbers etc., etc., which I never did get to look right.
