RE: Future of FrameMaker: InDesign?

[David Cramer <dacramer@xxxxxxxx>]

Bill,

 From the sound of it, it would appear you should be too busy to have 
responded at all, but your comments are so articulate and, I think, 
perceptive, that I'm glad you did.

Interestingly, there is one particular field of documentation where I 
believe formatting is a hindrance, and it's what we're doing right 
now: e-mail. I thank unadorned e-mail for a rebirth of writing around 
the world, and the associated searching for meaning. Even flame/holy 
wars probably serve a useful function in this binary swirl of raw 
voices seeking expression and resolution. I suspect that as formatted 
e-mail (inevitably?) replaces unformatted e-mail, the world will be 
poorer for it :-)

My father dabbled in typesetting as a hobby in his retirement. In 
honour of your upcoming documentation chores, as well as your 
typesetting experiences, I wish you the Gaelic prayer my father 
printed by hand for me some years ago. He had typeset it in many 
fancy fonts and in multiple colours. But it's probably just as 
effective in plain text:


          from
        Ghoulies
           &
        Ghosties
           &
      Long-Leggity
        Beasties
  & other things that go
    BUMP! in the night,
      the Good Lord
       deliver us


Regards,

David

-- 
David Cramer, Process Innovation Evangelist          87-1313 Border Street
PBSC Computer Training Centres (an IBM company)      Winnipeg MB R3H 0X4
Corporate Office Research & Development              Canada


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