Re: New to FrameMaker

Subject: Re: New to FrameMaker
From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net
To: "Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:21:41 -0500

At 7:17 AM +0530 6/16/07, Edgar D' Souza wrote:
>On 6/16/07, Combs, Richard <richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> <snipped>
>> So, once you set up the variable, it's Ctrl+0 a Enter -- only one more
>> keystroke than in Word. :-)
>>
>
>
>Wow! That's neat! :-) Thanks for the idea and explanation, Richard.
>
>Regards,
>Ed.

The advantage as I see it for Autotext is that you don't have to
program. You fill in a table in FrameMaker, and the plug-in takes
care of it for you. That is an advantage over a scripting solution.
It doesn't have quite the flexibility, but it is drop-dead simple.

I like the elegant solution.

Scott
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References:
New to FrameMaker: From: Nina Rogers
RE: New to FrameMaker: From: Combs, Richard
Re: New to FrameMaker: From: Edgar D' Souza

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