Scripting issues

[Steve Rickaby]

Yves' e-mail about scripting has reminded me of something I need advice about.

Until quite recently I was using the ancient FrameMaker 7 for Mac. Over many years of working with it I had developed a series of custom toolbars and macros for cutting the workload of book production, using QuickKeys, a Mac macro utility.

FrameMaker for Mac has now gone, as has QuickKeys for that matter, and I am now working with FrameMaker 12 in Parallels. This leaves me without some important but pretty simple automation, for example inserting '<CharStyleName><DefaultParaFormat>' and so on into index markers.

Can anyone recommend a Windows text macro tool that could fill this gap?

Please note that I am not talking about automating FrameMaker with either of the (at least?) two powerful methods now available, I am only talking about simple text manipulation and user interface short-cuts. QuickKeys could cut, paste and inject text and invoke menu commands, which is all I'm after.

Any advice welcome.
-- 
Steve