Yet another suggestion for an editor - Frame Maker

[Don Libes]

In article <8235 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>Have you tried the Grand editor (current incarnation of the RAND
>editor)?  How about Sam, the most "decent" editor I've ever used?

While I still use emacs for programs, I use Frame Maker (Frame
Technology) for papers.  It's great.  It's WYSIWYG and has a very nice
orthogonal command structure.  What's also amusing is that most of the
emacs commands work in Frame, although they are just described in the
documentation as "shorthands".  It also lets you edit graphics just
like MacDraw.

The whole thing is very weird.  The stole the best concepts from other
programs to make this.  It's fast.  It's cheap.  The manual is easy to
read.  And they answer their phones.  Needless to say, it is extremely
popular here where I work.

I've written many papers using it, and just finished writing a 400
page book using it.  (It produced the PostScript to make the
camera-ready.)  Neither my co-author nor I can stop being impressed by
this product.  Being a programmer, myself, I'm very critical.  The
only software I have ever raved about like this was Xinu and UNIX.

PS: I have no connection with the company except as a customer.

Don Libes          cme-durer.arpa      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes