Re: Writing tools: Quark, FrameMaker and others

[fffish -at- zkey -dot- com]

Everything I've read about Quark is that it's impractical for long-document 
publication, unless you spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on 
plug-in upgrades.
 
So your real choices are FrameMaker and Ventura.  Of the two, Ventura has 
more features, a much, much better user interface, and a powerful user 
support group (news:// cnews.corel.ca/ corel.graphic_apps.ventura8) [note 
addition of spaces; we don't need spam-bots trawling the user group].
 
Of course, using Ventura requires that you go against the "de facto 
standard."  You'll have to be rational and interested in purchasing the 
best software, rather than the safe software.  For some people, that's just 
not worth the risk...

[it boggles me that Corel products aren't the defacto standard. They're 
certainly the most powerful, fully-featured and generally easier-to-use 
software...]

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