I recall hearing (about 10 years or so ago, things may have changed), that a lot of Microsoft's documentation was written in FrameMaker, not Word, because Word couldn't handle what they needed to do. That always amused me.
I wonder if it's still the case ... On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Steve Rickaby < srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote: > At 13:41 -0700 25/9/13, Alison Craig wrote: > > >"Word is? (long pause), Word is? (another long pause). Word is for memos." > > Ok, I cannot resist rising to this... > > Quite a few years ago, I had to prepare some assembly instructions for a > mineral ore separator. The client mandated Word, probably because it was > the only document preparation program they had ever heard of. > > The version of Word I was using had the interesting property of consigning > diagrams that overflowed the page into some Byte World in the Sky: that is, > as added text caused them to flow off the end of the current page, they > failed to appear on the following page. > > I had (gasp) paid support for this version of Word, so I rang Microsoft > and explained the issue. After a long pause, the M$ support person said - > and I am not making this up - "It sounds as if you are trying to do > something that is too complex for Word [yeah, like words and pictures?] - > have you thought of using FrameMaker?" > > -- > Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet] > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims.ML at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- Lin Sims -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130927/cd58517c/attachment.html>
