🚀 go-pugleaf

Technology moves on and innovation is alive and kicking. 

We use whatever tools are available at the time. FM has been around for ages and has a loyal global following. Technical writers are lucky enough to be considered specialists and invariable have some say in the tools that they use. 

There are always competitor products that are looking to increase their market share. They do this by looking at what the market demands as well as looking at what their competitors lack - if they can get one up on their competitor then they may just convince a few users to switch. Eventually it is this momentum in the market place that drives innovation. 

FM may not have some of the 'nice' features we see appearing in Word for now, but at the same time Word is still not strong enough to convince us to drop FM for now - lets face it, it is easy to become spoilt by what we like and cannot have, rather than what we need (not sure that made sense, but you get the idea!) 

I'll use FM until such times a better tool comes a long that can do everything I can do now ... and more! For a start it would have to help me do things quicker, easier and cheaper, just to get off first base... 

After all I am employed for my writing skills (?) and not what tool I use <vbg> my 0.02 

Steve 

ps this has been a very lively thread - at least Adobe can see we are hungry for something new ...