Thanks Art, that looks useful indeed. I'll give it a try soon. cheers, Jakob.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 15:11, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote: > I think AutoText will do all, or most, of the stuff you want. > http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html > > Art Campbell > ? ? ? ? ?art.campbell at gmail.com > ?"... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a > redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?No disclaimers apply. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? DoD 358 > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Jakob Fix <jakob.fix at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> We're looking at weaning our authors off a previous XML authoring tool >> (Syntext Serna) and get them accustomed to FrameMaker 9 (structured). >> One of the things they really liked with the previous tool was the >> possibility to create easily graphical buttons in the menu bar and >> associate them with a text or structured snippet. Over time they >> accumulated a long row of icons used to quickly insert these snippets >> and thus avoided speling errors. >> >> I'm looking for an equivalent solution for FrameMaker 9. ?I have found >> Leximation's StructureSnippets plugin which is very close our >> requirements but apparently does not allow for non-structured, >> text-only contents (each snippet must be surrounded by a root >> element). Although this plugin does not provide icons in the menu bar, >> one can use the context menu, the keyboard or the modeless dialog box. >> >> Unless somebody can suggest a solution to my problem, I would be >> interested to hear from the FrameMaker customisation experts on this >> list about the work necessary to implement this plugin (in FDK rather >> than FrameScript). Requirements in a nutshell would be: >> - provide a way to easily associate unstructured or structured text >> (up to 1024 chars, this limit is for guidance only) with a button in >> FrameMaker's menu bar (and optionally other access methods such as >> context menu or modeless dialogue) >> - store them persistently in between sessions >> - allow for easy management (i.e. list buttons, add, modify and delete >> a button and its associated snippet) >> - as a plus, allow for custom icons to be used for the buttons >> >> cheers, >> Jakob. >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. >> >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >> or visit >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
