Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-03 Thread Jerilynne Knight
Hey there Peter, I totally forgot about WordStar! I'm still a keyboard shortcuts person and grumble heartily when they're not available. I can do things so much more quickly with the keyboard! J 317.593.5551 On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 10:11 PM Peter Gold wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:31 PM

Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-03 Thread Jerilynne Knight
Hey there Lin...right there widya Numbering, after all these years, still sucks! J On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:47 AM Lin Sims wrote: > Word still pretty much sucks. It's more stable than it used to be, but > things like numbering still require very strictly controlled styles or some >

Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-03 Thread Lin Sims
Word still pretty much sucks. It's more stable than it used to be, but things like numbering still require very strictly controlled styles or some facility with VB. I've encountered people who can get it to do a lot of what Frame does, but, again, they use a lot of VB macros to do what Frame does

Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-03 Thread Jerilynne Knight
What a great history of FM...I started out on Ventura Publisher, while working for Xerox, who had purchased the software and didn't know squiddly squat about it so, as someone who had gone NUTZ trying to find some way to do process doc and software manuals without going postal, I set out to learn

Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-03 Thread Lin Sims
Klaus is fairly active on the Adobe forums, and still working on useful scripts, too. On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:05 PM Peter Gold wrote: > Just when I've been wondering if I’m really as old as I look, or only as > old as I've always thought I was (meaning 20-something), in jumps Frank > Stearns!