Xref: utzoo comp.text.desktop:1381 comp.text:7537 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!spock!kim!kim From: kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text Subject: Re: Framemaker vs. Troff Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 06:44:11 GMT References: <1990Nov7.192715.2786@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: kim@spock Organization: Public Switching, MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada Lines: 25 In-reply-to: rr2g@rhonda.ce.Virginia.EDU's message of 7 Nov 90 19:27:15 GMT In article <1990Nov7.192715.2786@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rr2g@rhonda.ce.Virginia.EDU (Rhonda Gaines) writes: | We have a separate file with nothing but troff equation definitions | ranging from sigma subscript x to huge matrices that when printed | comes to about 20 pages. Our normal procedure is to write the troff | file using $$ delimeters and put in the definition name (not the | definition itself) for the equation we want to use. Can this or a | similar (easy) form be done using framemaker? Or do you have to cut | and paste from another document. One method that would be fairly easy to use would be to create a directory filled with documents that contain a single equation. Frame lets you import a document fairly easily (using a pick menu), and it can import by copying or by reference, so you can save on storage if you are certain your equation location will not vary. Cutting and pasteing is a pretty good option as well, considering how much clip art uses that technique. (Frame makes it quite easy to cut and paste multi-page entities because the page automatically scrolls as you drag the mouse with the select button down.) Kim -- Kim Letkeman kim@software.mitel.com uunet!mitel!spock!kim