Frame vs Word - ERRATUM

[Michael LaTorra <mikel -at- HUEY -dot- ACCUGRAPH -dot- COM>]

ERRATUM: I accidentally transposed some text in the Comparison Table of
FrameMaker and Word that I posted under the message title "SUMMARY -
Frame vs Word".  The errors occurred in the rows "tables" and "printing".
A corrected table is included below.  And I'd like to thank those sharp-
eyed readers who caught these errors and informed me.  Hats off to:
Carol Odlum, Becky Day, M. Brown ("Vidiot"), Colin Evans, and
Bertrand Decouty.

One more thing: More responses to my original posting have been
coming in.  After a decent interval (i.e., when I have time),
I will summarize these as well.


Live long & prosper,
Mike LaTorra

Documentation Supervisor
Accugraph Inc.
mikel -at- accugraph -dot- com
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            Comparison Table of FrameMaker and Word
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FUNCTION        FRAME v4                WORD v6
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platforms       PC, Mac, UNIX           PC, Mac

application     Desk Top Publisher      Word Processor
type

speed           fast                    slow

books           designed for this;      not designed for this;
(multi-file)    1,000 pages are OK;     100 pages are barely possible;
                easy to create &        1,000 pages are out of the question
                maintain, including     extremely slow to process/update;
                pagination              difficult to control pagination
                                        between files in book

templates       comprehensive, robust,  limited, difficult to modify once
                easy to use and modify  in use

mixed page      easy to combine         combining different layouts in the
layouts         different layouts       same document tends to crash Word
                in one document

paragraph       easy to apply, modify;  easy to apply; user can not define
tags            user can define number  number of lines in widow/orphan control
                of lines in widow/
                orphan control

character       user can define         user can define
tags

hyphenation     robust; allows          weak; does not allow non-breaking
                non-breaking hyphen     hyphen

version         uses Conditional Text   multiple file sets must be maintained
control         to maintain different
                doc. versions in same
                file

references      index, cross-ref.,      cross-references can cause problems;
                easy to create &        updating references is extremely slow
                update

tables          table formats can be    each instance must be formatted
                created & saved;        individually
                2 predefined
                formats included

graphics        adequate tools for      limited tools; outside graphic app.
                most purposes           usually required

image capture   built-in function       - none -

sorting         - none -                supported for tables, lists, paragraphs

printing        supports registration   no registration marks, thumbnails,
                marks, thumbnails,      color separations
                color separations

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