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- From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
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- Subject: Re: Frame 4.0 (Was Re: No 4.0 for NeXT???)
- Message-ID: <GERRY.92Dec17100057@onion.cmu.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 15:00:57 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: manis@cs.ubc.ca's message of 16 Dec 1992 08:45:48 -0800
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- Vincent Manis' article, although short, summarizes my feelings about
- Frame Maker also. Yes, it is easy to use, and yes, for many simple
- applications, it gets the job done. But you must really give up quite
- a lot, for example, when switching from TeX. The other problem is
- that Frame seems to only know about lines, where TeX knows about
- paragraphs and pages, thus the documents set by TeX ALWAYS look
- better. (This is in part due to TeX vastly superior use of kerning
- and glue.)
-
- What really bugs me though, is that these comments have been said for
- years, and no one at Frame seems to be listening. Seriously, what
- was the big deal about the 2.1 -> 3.0 release? Not much that I could
- see, except tables.
-
- So, Frame folks, are you listening? We are disgruntled! If you don't
- improve your product, you will lose in the end.
-
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