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From: sticklen@cps.msu.edu (Jon Sticklen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: FrameMaker (was: good DTP packages)
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Date: 25 Jul 90 04:00:54 GMT
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From article <35390@siemens.siemens.com>, by bmh@demon.siemens.com (Beatrice M Hwong):
> In article <5213@ethz.UUCP> mr@ethz.UUCP (Marc Raths) writes:
>>First a word of caution: I don't have access to FrameMaker on a Mac but
>>Frame Technology says it is the same as on a Sun so comments may well apply.
>>
> How about the ability to have floating figure references?  More explicitly,
> will Framemaker allow one to include in the text a reference to a figure
> number which is then attached to a figure, the binding of that figure number
> does not happen until print time.
> Beatrice Hwong
> 609-734-3384
> bmh@siemens.siemens.com


in fact is there *any* dtp system that allows symbolic referencing
other than FullWrite - and is still WYSIWYG (ie not LaTeX..)

	---jon---