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Re: RAW vs. raw image format

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Peter T. Daniels to Anton Shepelev:

> > Framemaker is not meant in a generator of .doc or .rtf
> > files. It is a system that can produce high-quality
> > documents on its own. For a generator of .doc files, see
> > Pandoc.
>
> I made *The World's Writing Systems* and several other
> books in FrameMaker. They explicitly recommend _not_ using
> it as a word processor, but rather that you should import
> Word files into it.

That is the opposite direction from I commented on.

> I rue the day when Adobe InDesign supplanted FrameMaker as
> the DTP software of choice. And then Adobe bought
> FrameMaker so that they could keep its upgrades a year or
> more behind InDesign.

Is InDesign that bad?  I used to work in Adobe PageMaker,
and liked it.

> I could not have made 20-odd word indexes for Phil Baldi's
> book on Latin as an IE language -- each one alphabetized
> according to its own standard -- in anything but
> FrameMaker.  (Multiple indexes are possible in Word, but
> they make it very difficult to find out how, and very
> cumbersome to actually do it.  I wasn't able to discover
> how to do it in InDesign.) (Not to mentio that InDesign is
> lousy at "complex scripts," i.e. right-to-left ones and
> ones where letters change shape in combinations.)

Your are very specific requirements. Had you access to the
InDesign support and user community for consultation?

> You hate Microsoft. Whoop-de-doo.

Is that supposed to be the ultimate argument of a Microsoft
advocate?

> Nonetheless, in 1994 FrameMaker could output .rtf files.

So what?

> > I think it wrong to capitalise file extensions if they
> > occur at start of sentence.
>
> I think it is wrong to all-caps them in the middle of a
> sentence.

I agree.

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Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2023-02-19 16:34 +0300
  Re: RAW vs. raw image format "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2023-02-19 07:19 -0800
    Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2023-02-19 22:00 +0300
      Re: RAW vs. raw image format "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2023-02-19 13:21 -0800
        Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2023-02-20 00:39 +0300
          Re: RAW vs. raw image format Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2023-02-20 12:11 +0530
            Re: RAW vs. raw image format lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2023-02-21 15:54 -0600
              Re: RAW vs. raw image format Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2023-02-22 06:48 +0530
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2023-02-21 18:35 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-02-23 19:34 +0300
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2023-02-23 08:39 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-02-24 00:18 +0300
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2023-02-23 14:41 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2023-02-23 15:25 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Jerry Friedman <jerry.friedman99@gmail.com> - 2023-02-23 15:48 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2023-02-23 14:38 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2023-02-23 14:46 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2023-02-23 14:45 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2023-02-21 22:12 -0600
              Re: RAW vs. raw image format Tak To <takto@alum.mit.eduxx> - 2023-02-22 11:30 -0500
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2023-02-22 11:15 -0600
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2023-02-22 09:36 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-02-23 19:21 +0300
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-02-23 00:31 +0300
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Tak To <takto@alum.mit.eduxx> - 2023-02-23 15:40 -0500
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2023-02-23 15:03 -0600
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2023-02-23 14:50 -0800
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-02-23 19:31 +0300
                Re: RAW vs. raw image format Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2023-02-23 18:53 -0500
              Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-02-23 00:23 +0300
            Re: RAW vs. raw image format Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-02-23 00:21 +0300
      Re: RAW vs. raw image format TonyCooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2023-02-19 16:30 -0500

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