Before doing Opera, I did another project, Frame 2 HTML. At Televerket Research (Telenor), we were using FrameMaker as a word processor.
Frame 2 HTML would take the combined FrameMaker documents, with images, tables, indexes and the like and convert to a set of Web pages with the structure intact.
Very proud of this project as well. NASA, MIT and Ford were some of the institutions that used it at the time.
@jon FrameMaker was my default word processor at work for several years! After WordPerfect, before Word.
For me as well. I loved using FrameMaker. It felt like a significant downgrade to have to use Word.
Given that I made the Frame 2 HTML converter, I also did some modifications on similar tools for Word and Word Perfect and that also showed the difference in quality. Much less structure. Basically spaghetti code, while FrameMaker documents were very structured and thus easier to get predictable results when converting them.
@jon Interesting. I do not remember I used conversion to html. But I do remember another company in the group at least for a period started to use html-based version of documents as a standard, but do not recall how they were created.
A useful feature in Word Perfect was the code mode, horizontal split with the code <bold> etc visibile at the bottom half. That experience helped me to easier undrstand the basics when using html for web pages. For me who is not a programmer.
The tool I made was quite advanced and needed to be compiled and installed. It was not something you could use yourself from FrameMaker. They did add a tool them selves after a while, but it was not as powerful as the one I made. I was contacted by FrameMaker at the time and had a chat with their CEO, but nothing came of it. The tool was made as part of my work at Telenor and was owned by them.
I found a link to information relating to the tool on the W3C site.
