Re: Frame Manuals

[Pat Madea <madea -at- MMSI -dot- COM>]

I'm a newbie to Frame and I agree with Dr. Richard Mateosian's
assessment of the Frame 4 manual that it is pretty good (in
comparison to other manuals).  I've also bought and relied on
_The Frame Handbook_ by Linda Branagan & Michael Sierra.  It has
been helpful, also, in learning FM.

However, one problem I've discovered is in indexing in both books.
In fact, in trying to resolve a problem using the FM Manual and
then using _The Frame Handbook_, I discovered that _The Frame
Handbook_ uses different words and examples, but follows the FM
Manual pretty closely in layout and structure and indexing.  And
that's a problem because the "hole" in the FM Manual happened to
be duplicated in _The Frame Handbook_.

The specific problem I was trying to resolve in Frame was how to
allow more spacing to occur between words, after commas, colons,
periods, and semi-colons in some documents I had inherited to
edit.  I knew there had to be a switch somewhere that allowed more or
limited spacing between words.  Searching the indicies of the FM
Manual and _The Frame Handbook_ proved fruitless as did the online
help.  I ended up calling tech support to get the answer, which
was very simple.  But, the call would have been unnecessary if the
FM Manual had been better indexed and _The Frame Handbook_
hadn't duplicated the error.

The FM Manual and _The Frame Handbook_ are good manuals and I rely
on them and would recommend them.  They could be better, but then,
what couldn't?

There's my nickel....



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