I would add too, that I still think that Adobe should have persisted
with Frame 5.5 on Linux, and it was an unfortunate mistake to allow the
stoush with Apple (if that was what it is was) close the door on having
FM on the Mac.
The examples of user enhancements described, the key commands,
formatting styles easily accessed with the keyboard, and other useful
functions are what kept me using FM for two decades. This quote is most
telling, "customers switching to FrameMaker from Interleaf was how much
less tedious it felt to use FrameMaker." FM is pretty tedious now. Find
the pod, click-click-click, find the pallette, click,... :(
What a great read!
Cheers
Alan
--
Dr Alan Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941
Auckland, New Zealand 1140
On 20/08/19 06:50, Alan Litchfield wrote:
Thank you for posting the link. FM is certainly one of the unsung heroes
in computing history. Even now, publishing systems are not considered
important, until they break.
If it were not that FM had diverged from the familiar and functional
publishing system to a graphic designer tool, I would probably still be
using it.
--
Dr Alan Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941
Auckland, New Zealand 1140
On 19/08/19 22:25, Klaus Daube wrote:
Friends of FrameMaker,
Today I got a mail from David Hemmendinger (Associate Editor-in-chief,
IEEE Annals of
the History of Computing) with two corrections for my web-page about
FM's history.
The wonderful surplus of this mail is the link to the full article by
David Murray on
the history of FrameMaker. The article
(http://walden-family.com/david-murray/frame-posted.pdf) will will
appear in the 2019
July-Sept issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
(http://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an).
For the first time we have genuine information about the early days of
FM.
Klaus
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