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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FrameMaker vs Fullwrite
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Date: 1 Feb 88 04:20:59 GMT
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In article <195@iconsys.UUCP> calvin@iconsys.UUCP (Calvin Hamilton) writes:
>Does anyone know of a software called FrameMaker?
>I have heard rumor that it exists for the Mac, but
>have never seen any information on it.  How does it
>compare to Fullwrite?  

FrameMaker is a WYSWIG editor for the Sun Workstations; as far as I know, it
is not available for the Mac.  A lengthy comparison would be... lengthy;
they have quite a few similarities, but FrameMaker has more options for page
layout (connecting text rectangles, as one would in ReadySetGo!), while
FullWrite has more bibliographical features -- easier footnotes, endnotes,
indexes and table-of-contents.

Frankly, I love FrameMaker on my Sun at work; but if the FullWrite demo disk
is any indication, I think FullWrite will be the superior word processor
(FrameMaker would be a superior page layout program).

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