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What does Framemaker do?What does Framemaker do?Posted Aug 26, 2004 17:40 UTC (Thu) by gilb (subscriber, #11728)In reply to: SCO director defends fight-back stance (ComputerWorld) by bfields Parent article: SCO director defends fight-back stance (ComputerWorld)
The short answer is that TeX can do anything Frame can do. However, it is easier to do it in Frame because of the GUI. Hacking TeX style files to get your look just right requires a lot of learning before you can get started. Frame allows you to get started more quickly.
Frame is used for publishing (IEEE standards are done in Frame) as it is far superior to MS Word or Wordperfect for this type of task.
I use Frame 6.0 (with Crossover Office) when I edit the draft standard because that is what the IEEE wants and because others in the group can also use it. I use TeX for my own documentation because its equation capabilities are unmatched.
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What does Framemaker do? Posted Aug 27, 2004 12:47 UTC (Fri) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link] I don't agree. I've worked with Framemaker (maintaining a document whenthe original writer was in hollidays), and things are not as easy as it looks. I only wanted something that seems to be simple: add a table of contents to the document. LaTeX: \tableofcontents, done. Framemaker: Find out where to edit (or rather add) the table of contents style in the hidden style frames, edit that, and then add the table of contents. Took me a day or two, and still looked ugly. The reason was probably that the author started with an incomplete template, because a document template should contain a TOC style, anyway. Just because it is WYSIWYG, it is not easy, if there is no straight-forward way to do it (the way LaTeX does it is straightforward, and the GUI frontend (LyX) makes inserting a nicely formatted TOC a matter of two or three clicks). Tailoring the TOC style to your needs is more elaborated in LaTeX than in Framemaker (i.e. it takes more to know about, but the result looks so much better in any case that it's comparing apples and oranges).
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