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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Subject: Re: Troff vs FrameMaker Productivity
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.045118.27744@news.eng.convex.com>
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- Organization: The Instrumentality
- References: <HAMM.92Jul22094612@toto.austoto.sps.mot.com> <1992Jul22.231152.4991@informix.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:51:18 GMT
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- Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
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- In article <1992Jul22.231152.4991@informix.com> robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
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- >Yes, if the content is text, and if readers will be just as happy no
- >matter how it's formatted, you can't beat an all-text environment. WYSIWYG
- >can be a real waste - and add a lot of complexity - in that case.
-
- Why does WYSIWYG have to add _any_ complexity? You can give a writer (one
- who doesn't care to mess with formatting decisions) a FrameMaker template.
- If the template is well-designed, all the writer has to do is fill in the
- blanks. It's as simple as typing text.
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