Re: PET PEEVE #3148

[Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU>]

On Sat, 5 Aug 1995, Debbie Molinaro wrote:

> Don't they know that the learning curve for a different
> but comparable tool (Word vs. WordPerf, PM vs. Framemaker,
> PC vs. Mac, etc.) is usually just a week or two?

> I have to disagree here.
> I would be *very* impressed if any PageMaker guru learned
> Frame in a week or two. In fact, send me your resume.

You tempt me.  I won't claim to have full mastery, but I learned Frame
well enough to be functional in a week or two.  And my mastery of
PageMaker 4 was the key to being able to do it.  I didn't know all the
Frame terms for the tools I wanted to use, but because I knew such tools
were characteristics of DTP programs, I knew enough to go looking for
something similar.  This gave me a good beginning.  Obviously, Frame and
Pagemaker offer different ways to accomplish many of the same tasks--and
differ in offereing tasks that are not common to both.  But it was easier
to learn some of the differences when I could simply locate the
similarities and then go from there.

BTW, I learned to find my way around in the old Ventura for DOS the same
way.  (But I'll confess that while I love both Frame and Pagemaker, the
same does not apply to my experience with Ventura.)

        RoMay Sitze,  rositze -at- nmsu -dot- edu