Re: Engineering Textbook: Word MasterDocs vs FrameMaker vs ... ???

Subject: Re: Engineering Textbook: Word MasterDocs vs FrameMaker vs ... ???
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: Nina Rogers <janina -dot- rogers -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:40:19 -0700

My experience has been that Word master docs stumble most on numbered subheadings, which is something you usually see mostly in procedural documents. If your cross-references aren't trying to link to things like "section x.xx, steps y-z" in different sub docs, you'll probably be ok with Word.

Gene Kim-Eng


On 10/20/2021 5:16 AM, Nina Rogers wrote:

There are four authors who have been using Word MasterDocs for the book,
and they just sent me the files yesterday. I have not used Word MasterDocs
since, oh, 1998 or so. Back then, even though I was an "expert," I still
found it very clunky and unpredictable, particularly in the areas of
cross-references and indexing.


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