Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 07, 2004 07:30 AM
I've considered alternatives to Frame for a variety of reasons, but one of the showstoppers for me is numbering. Numbers in Frame work. Period. Numbers in Word and OpenOffice are quirky. In long documents books of multiple documents, nested lists, etc., numbering has to work for us or the tool is not in the game. Our developers mostly use OOo (a couple use Word) to write draft doco, which I import into Frame to create the final version. I tell them not to worry too much about appearance, etc., a) because from doc to doc it varies, and b) because by the time it gets into Frame, Frame's styles will decide final appearance.
Templates are another thing that I'm still wrestling with in OOo. This could be an indication that they're actually quite powerful and I need to spend time learning them, but again, having a template with styles as the source, which can be imported at intervals to keep all docs up to date and looking the same, is another requirement of our documentation tool.
OOo is good, but I can't see it as a replacement for Frame yet. I wish it were; x-platform, "free", good support, etc.
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Replace Frame with OOo? Numbering issues
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 07, 2004 07:30 AMTemplates are another thing that I'm still wrestling with in OOo. This could be an indication that they're actually quite powerful and I need to spend time learning them, but again, having a template with styles as the source, which can be imported at intervals to keep all docs up to date and looking the same, is another requirement of our documentation tool.
OOo is good, but I can't see it as a replacement for Frame yet. I wish it were; x-platform, "free", good support, etc.
cheers,
David
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