Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

Guy Sotomayor ggs at shiresoft.com
Thu Apr 15 11:57:41 CDT 2021


On 4/15/21 9:42 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 16:00, Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund at agj.net> wrote:
>
>> FRAME from that era was nice and fast.
> As in FrameMaker? I barely know it. Back in the '80s I was a total
> Aldus PageMaker fanboy. :-) IMHO one of the greatest GUI apps ever
> written.
>
I've used FrameMaker a lot...it's great for handling large documents and 
collections of documents.  Used it quite a bit at IBM and handled 1000+ 
page documents (of course that wasn't all one "source" file).

I could never get my head around Word for anything more than 10 pages or 
so.  Just too hard to deal with everything in massive documents.

Now I almost exclusively use LaTeX.  I've found that being able to use 
my own text editor to actually write the content means I don't have to 
switch between different notions on how moving around and edit should 
work.  Using a mark-up language also means I generally have more control 
on how things appear in the document (something that continually 
frustrated me with Word especially when dealing with cross references 
and figures).

-- 
TTFN - Guy



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