Re: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

[Larry Kollar <Larry.Kollar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm finding that many of the jobs I'm interviewing for want Word. I'm 
> starting a short term contract at (big Internet company) and they want 
> it all in Word. I mentioned the instability of the template in Word and 
> the response was, "Yeah, but we need it in Word so it can be used in 
> foreign countries."  I guess they never heard of RTF.

Foreign countries? Oh, Unicode.

Why not do the work in OpenOffice and export to Word when/if needed?
OOo is stable and is more style-driven. If you need HTML output, OOo's
HTML is far more usable than Word's.

> But if FrameMaker is toast, what is everyone looking toward? None 
> of the XML based stuff seems really usable. Is it back to LaTex?

Groff for me, but yeah. Even before MacFrame was terminated, I had
already started openly questioning the wisdom of switching from much
more capable markup languages to GUI-based tools simply because they
had pretty GUIs.

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc


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