Re: Word processors [was Re: Phonemes]

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

FrameMaker (which Adobe has now officially discontinued) is the superb
typesetting system I've used since 1992, with excellent
cross-referencing skills -- except that it doesn't have a setting for
endnotes and doesn't know what to do with long footnotes (they get
handled manually).

I have good memories of briefly using FrameMaker some years ago. I'm extremely disgusted by Adobe's attitude and I think the DoJ should be entitled to take a look at such situations. PageMaker users are encouraged to 'migrate' to InDesign as well.

I'm afraid I have to live in the software past, because the only useful
bell or whistle introduced in MSWord is Track Changes.

When I think of all the different options for Desktop Publishing one had in the early-mid 90's, and the current panorama, I feel something is very, very wrong. Current software is usually dumbed-down, lacks features, makes it difficult to make things right and, what is worse, shows no signs at all of ever going to improve.

I haven't looked at the latest Lotus and Wordperfect offerings.
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