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[Togan Muftuoglu <toganm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Anders Johansson; <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> on 15 Nov, 2002 wrote:
> On Friday 15 November 2002 15.44, KMcLauchlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I've been trying to work around OOo's lack of capability
> > (compared to FrameMaker)
>
> I've seen you mention this a couple of times, and I have to say I'm a bit 
> befuddled about it. I freely admit I've never used FrameMaker, but from what 
> I've read on the net it's more a Desktop Publishing program than straight 
> word processor. MS Word doesn't compete with FrameMaker, and OO Writer is a 
> Word competitor.

Correct even Microsoft Word is not a competitor with FrameMaker as they
all run different races. Word processsing and DEsktop Publishing are two
different areas. If you start using Framaker for a letter or five page
report I would say you are wasting your time money energy you name it.
> for desktop publishing you should probably look at TeX, LaTeX and the various 
> tools associated with it 

Actually Scribus is more likely to be a similar application to
FramaMaker. On the otherhand you do have the beauty of using Docbook XML
along with XSL Stylesheets FOP XEP PassiveTeX ito name a few. Just to
give an idea All of the O'reilly Books are written ( or converted to)
Docbook XML and then from that format exported to FrameMaker But bo OO
or Staroffice is not used as the basis for conversion to FrameMaker

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Togan Muftuoglu
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