Oh, I WISH I had Framemaker... But this might be interesting. Setting up margin notes in InDesign is considered to be an "Intermediate to advanced feature." It may well be possible to have more recurrent structured elements in Framemaker, but I would suggest that only TeX and friends can do something like structured recurrent text elements that might vary according to anything more than a trivial algorithm. I dunno. \inmargin seemed pretty simple to me... I think that my designer may be jealous. ;-) On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 10:53 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Dear gang,
There has been some discussion on the list lately comparing ConTeXt with InDesign. Are there any Framemaker users on the list? I'm interested in comparisons between ConTeXt and Framemaker, with cross-comparisons with InDesign as appropriate.
What does ConTeXt have that Framemaker does not?
What does Framemaker have that ConTeXt does not? (svg integration comes to mind -- there's been some svg discussion here the last couple of days).
From what I know of Framemaker -- structured processing etc, it seems that would be a more a~propos comparison with ConTeXt than InDesign.
Eventually I would like to establish a wiki page with detailed and accurate comparisons between ConTeXt, InDesign, Framemaker, and perhaps other DTP applications as well. I even plan to get my hands on the "competition" so I can get more 1st hands knowledge for my own edification.
Best wishes Idris