Re: Scripting issues

2015-03-09 Thread Fred Wersan
For quick macro work or letter substitution and simple scripting, I suggest Macro Express. It is inexpensive. You can use it for quite complicated things, but I find it a bit cumbersome for that stuff. But it is quick and easy for the simple stuff. For more involved scripting, another vote

Re: Scripting issues

2015-03-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:22 +0100 8/3/15, Klaus Daube wrote: After a look on QuickKeys website I see that the equivalent on Windows would be http://www.pcshorthand.com/screenshot.htmlShortHand on Windows. I had used this for many years, but switched to AHK in 2005. AHK provides nearly all Windows functions - and

Re: Scripting issues

2015-03-08 Thread 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

Re: Scripting issues

2015-03-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
My thanks to Adam, Rick, Carol and Klaus for very useful feedback. The vote is AutoHotKey 3, AutoIt 1 - but as the 1 vote comes from Rick, I have to give greater weight to it ;-) Lots to go on here. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to

Re: Scripting issues

2015-03-07 Thread Klaus Daube
On 6 Mar 2015 at 13:40, Steve Rickaby wrote: 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 'CharStyleNameDefaultParaFormat'

Re: Scripting issues

2015-03-06 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Steve, have a look at AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/). I have no personal experience with it but a newsletter that I subscribe to (http://webserver.computoredge.com/) has a weekly feature on it. If you search the newsletter's archives for autohotkey you'll find dozens of articles that