Automated way to import formats? YES!

[William Courington]

The fmbatch command supplied with Unix Frame can do it (and much else).

Here's an example command file that tells fmbatch to import variables  
(v option) to all files in a book:
Open DevGuide.bkt
Open variables.fm
ImportFormats v DevGuide.fmt variables.fm
Save DevGuide.bkt
Quit DevGuide.bkt
Quit variables.fm
Quit

Thanks to Art Campbell and Fred Ridder for suggesting alternatives  
which indirectly led me to taking a closer look at the -- ulp --  
fmbatch documentation.

   Bill


On Jul 14, 2009, at 6:58 PM, William Courington wrote:

> I have some books that share most of their content. With variables  
> and conditional text, I could probably make managing the files  
> tolerable. But it would be more tolerable with scripts or other  
> software that could do something like this:
>
>  - Open the "Settings" file for one book variant.
>        This file contains appropriate variable and conditional text  
> settings.
>  - For each file in the book:
>    - Open the file in Frame
>    - Import Formats (Variables, Conditional Text Settings) from  
> Settings file.
>    - Save and close.
>
> Is there a way to do this? I have both Windows and Solaris  
> FrameMakers.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>  Bill