Scripting issues

[Shmuel]

For inserting plain text clips, you could use the free Clipboard Help & 
Spell. It's a clipboard utility with spell checking. You could mark the 
clips you want to save as Favorites and they will always be available. 
If you need more info, let me know.

--
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer



On 06-Mar-15 3:40 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote:
> 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.