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Subject:A reason to use Word -- and Frame From:Richard G Harris <rgh -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 24 Jan 1996 08:42:32 +0001
I use FrameMaker on the PC. If I could, I would do most of my work in
FrameMaker. I initially create my text input using Word though.
The reson is simple enough. Other people use some of the stuff I write.
That's important because they sometimes use other tools.
For our needs at least, Word seems to be a more universally recognized
file type. Also we routinely use Word to save documents in another format
such as *.txt or *.rtf.
For long documents we write each chapter separately; that kind of chunking
also helps other people use my stuff.
Food for thought...
Dick Harris
Waters Corp.
rgh -at- world -dot- std -dot- com
