Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 12:05:47 -0600, Ken Springer wrote:

If you're not producing documents with MS-Office (or
possibly Frame) you will find a lot of push-back in the real world
when you come to exchange or edit them co-operatively.
What is Frame? I've never heard of it. (A quick Google search failed.

Possibly a typo for FrameMaker?

Not sure whether it's one or two words, or if one word, camel case.


FrameMaker and FrameBuilder are examples of good tools for
collaborative document writing. We routinely wrote 500+ page
specs with them. Like, a dozen people working on it at the
same time. A chapter a piece. When you're finished, you
generate TOC and index, like you would with Word. The difference
is, performance doesn't suck like it does on Word. No delays.

It's excellent for incorporating pictures. Gives good control over
composition, scale and the like. Not annoying like virtually
every other tool I've used. You can also do stick-art in there,
with the built-in drawing tools. We did plenty of flow charts,
or other goofy things, using the stick-art editor.

You wouldn't be able to include a "movie" in the middle of a doc,
but that's silly anyway. It's mainly intended for print media,
and even has Math Fonts so you can do equations. If you'd just
invented Quantum Mechanics, you could record every one of
your equations from the blackboard, in Frame. And, they'd look good.

Expensive, but recommended.

Paul