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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: framemaker
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 03:40:23 GMT
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- fyl@ssc.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
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- >I would be interested in hearing from someone who has used Framemaker and
- >Ventura.
-
-
- >I would like to more the complete solution over to a UNIX-based system.
- >Corel is available for UNIX platforms and Ventura is supposed to be
- >available for Suns with their 5.0 release (with no date as yet). So, the
- >choice is to wait and get Ventura (which I am not 100% happy with) or
- >change gears now. Suggestions are appreciated.
-
- I'm still learning FrameMaker so I can't give you a lot of info yet.
- Give me a couple of weeks :-) Amazing what 16-hour-a-day work with
- a product will teach you. One thing you'll be interested in with
- Framemaker is the MML (Maker Markup Language.) In effect you get two
- programs in one. You can mark up an ASCII file with MML codes in the
- same fashion as Troff and then Whizzywig the results and (I think)
- save the edited file back out as coded ASCII. Don't hold me to the
- last point. I'm still studying the MML docs.
-
- You have a real problem on another front. Corel 3.0 is not available for
- Unix and I don't hold much hope. Corel uses a third party (name slips me
- at the moment.) to do the Unix porting. Corel is a wonderful company to deal
- with. This third party is just the opposite. Corel apparently is not kept
- up to date regarding the status of the Unix port. They gave me some
- tentative dates but when I called the third party, they denied any knowledge
- of dates and claimed Corel was lying to be giving out dates. Go figure.
- Anyway, I don't have a lot of hope of getting version 3 on unix for
- at least 6 months.
-
- John
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