Re: layout/screen units mess

From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 12:14:26 EDT

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At 7:29 PM -0400 8/8/02, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>You're confusing this. Word processors group content into logical
>blocks - sections, paragraphs, runs, etc... Layout is a secondary
>consequence of presenting the *structured* content in a
>human-readable form.

Agreed.

> For a product such as FrameMaker, the layout *is* the important
>bit, and what gets laid out (i.e. the content) is secondary.

Actually, FrameMaker is a structured editor - always has
been. That's why it can do SGML and XML more easily and logically
than any other program in it's catagory.

Now PageMaker, InDesign and Quark are DEFINITELY more
presentation than structure.

Leonard

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