FrameMaker for Lab Manuals

FrameMaker is a sophisticated, well-behaved, and powerful word processor designed for book authors. It can handle documents that are thousands of pages long with ease; it does not crash or bog down with each save or graphics import. If you are producing a lab manual, you can set up each experiment as a different chapter in a "book"; if you decide to change the order of the experiments next semester, you simply move an experiment up or down in the book file. This book feature alone might make you consider trying FrameMaker, but Frame does a lot more than that, and it does it all well. In this article, I discuss the features of Frame that I find useful when I produce the manuals and handbook for the sophomore level organic chemistry lab students at CU Boulder.

This page is maintained by Patty Feist, Lab Coordinator, Organic Chemistry Teaching Labs at CU Boulder.
Please send any comments, corrections, or suggestions to feist@colorado.edu.
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