Re: custom text plugin wanted
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.campb...@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.campb...@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@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.campb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: custom text plugin wanted
Hi Scott, I will try your advice about unwrapping the root element and see if that works, although this won't be a satisfactory solution for the authors. Please let me know when you release a new version of StructureSnippets which can also handle simple text nodes. cheers, Jakob. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 19:04, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote: Hi Jakob... Regarding StructureSnippets .. you can manually edit the snippet files to unwrap the root element to leave just the plain text. This may help in the short term, and I'll look into updating the plugin to accommodate plain text (CDATA) nodes as a standard feature. Adding the ability to create and manage custom toolbars would be a bit of work, and could probably be a plugin of its own. If you don't find such a tool (I'm not aware of one), I'd be happy to look into developing it. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jakob Fix 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 s...@leximation.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp%40leximation.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: custom text plugin wanted
Hi Jakob... I've updated StructureSnippets to support plain text nodes and will release an updated version in a couple weeks after a bit more testing. I'll send the FM9 version to you directly for testing. If anyone else would like to test this before it's released (FM7/8/9), just send me an email off list. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jakob Fix wrote: Hi Scott, I will try your advice about unwrapping the root element and see if that works, although this won't be a satisfactory solution for the authors. Please let me know when you release a new version of StructureSnippets which can also handle simple text nodes. cheers, Jakob. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 19:04, Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Jakob... Regarding StructureSnippets .. you can manually edit the snippet files to unwrap the root element to leave just the plain text. This may help in the short term, and I'll look into updating the plugin to accommodate plain text (CDATA) nodes as a standard feature. Adding the ability to create and manage custom toolbars would be a bit of work, and could probably be a plugin of its own. If you don't find such a tool (I'm not aware of one), I'd be happy to look into developing it. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jakob Fix 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 arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
custom text plugin wanted
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 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 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. > >
custom text plugin wanted
Hi Scott, I will try your advice about unwrapping the root element and see if that works, although this won't be a satisfactory solution for the authors. Please let me know when you release a new version of StructureSnippets which can also handle simple text nodes. cheers, Jakob. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 19:04, Scott Prentice wrote: > Hi Jakob... > > Regarding StructureSnippets .. you can manually edit the "snippet" files to > unwrap the root element to leave just the plain text. This may help in the > short term, and I'll look into updating the plugin to accommodate plain text > (CDATA) nodes as a standard feature. > > Adding the ability to create and manage custom toolbars would be a bit of > work, and could probably be a plugin of its own. If you don't find such a > tool (I'm not aware of one), I'd be happy to look into developing it. > > Cheers, > > ...scott > > Scott Prentice > Leximation, Inc. > www.leximation.com > +1.415.485.1892 > > > > Jakob Fix 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 sp at leximation.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/sp%40leximation.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >> >> >
custom text plugin wanted
Hi Jakob... I've updated StructureSnippets to support plain text nodes and will release an updated version in a couple weeks after a bit more testing. I'll send the FM9 version to you directly for testing. If anyone else would like to test this before it's released (FM7/8/9), just send me an email off list. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jakob Fix wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I will try your advice about unwrapping the root element and see if > that works, although this won't be a satisfactory solution for the > authors. Please let me know when you release a new version of > StructureSnippets which can also handle simple text nodes. > > cheers, > Jakob. > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 19:04, Scott Prentice wrote: > >> Hi Jakob... >> >> Regarding StructureSnippets .. you can manually edit the "snippet" files to >> unwrap the root element to leave just the plain text. This may help in the >> short term, and I'll look into updating the plugin to accommodate plain text >> (CDATA) nodes as a standard feature. >> >> Adding the ability to create and manage custom toolbars would be a bit of >> work, and could probably be a plugin of its own. If you don't find such a >> tool (I'm not aware of one), I'd be happy to look into developing it. >> >> Cheers, >> >> ...scott >> >> Scott Prentice >> Leximation, Inc. >> www.leximation.com >> +1.415.485.1892 >> >> >> >> Jakob Fix 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. >>> >>> > >
custom text plugin wanted
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 arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: custom text plugin wanted
I think AutoText will do all, or most, of the stuff you want. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html Art Campbell art.campb...@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@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.campb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: custom text plugin wanted
Hi Jakob... Regarding StructureSnippets .. you can manually edit the snippet files to unwrap the root element to leave just the plain text. This may help in the short term, and I'll look into updating the plugin to accommodate plain text (CDATA) nodes as a standard feature. Adding the ability to create and manage custom toolbars would be a bit of work, and could probably be a plugin of its own. If you don't find such a tool (I'm not aware of one), I'd be happy to look into developing it. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jakob Fix 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 s...@leximation.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp%40leximation.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
custom text plugin wanted
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.
custom text plugin wanted
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 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. >
custom text plugin wanted
Hi Jakob... Regarding StructureSnippets .. you can manually edit the "snippet" files to unwrap the root element to leave just the plain text. This may help in the short term, and I'll look into updating the plugin to accommodate plain text (CDATA) nodes as a standard feature. Adding the ability to create and manage custom toolbars would be a bit of work, and could probably be a plugin of its own. If you don't find such a tool (I'm not aware of one), I'd be happy to look into developing it. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Jakob Fix 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 sp at leximation.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/sp%40leximation.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
