My FrameScripts

Last revised: 2000/10/06

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• Book Shell

  This is a utility script designed to make it easy to process each file of a book. (The aim is to put all the file-opening and file-closing stuff in one place, rather than rewriting it in every script that needs it.)

  There are two parts:

  1. _BookShell.fsl is the script that does the work of opening and closing the files. (It is not designed to be run directly; it should be called by a parent script, such as BookShellTest .)
  2. BookShell_Test.fsl provides an example of how to call and use _BookShell . This parent script does the work of processing each file. (You'll have to change the path in line 18 to point to the location where you have _BookShell .)

  How It Works:
  The parent script calls _BookShell and provides it with the name a subroutine (located in the parent script). _BookShell then:

  1. Opens each file in the book (if it is not already open).
  2. Calls the parent's subroutine (passing it the file's full path and filename and information about the file's type).
  3. Closes the file (if it wasn't open when it started).

  The parent script can:

  • process each file the same way, and/or
  • do special processing based on the filename, and/or
  • do special processing based on the file's type (e.g., Table Of Contents, Index, etc.).

  These scripts also illustrate how to use FrameScript's "callback" feature.

• insert_index_marker_See.fsl (Version 1.1. Revised 1999/11/15.)

  Inserts a "See" index marker. IE one that looks like this in the index:

  			apples
  				See fruit
  

• insert_index_marker_See_Also.fsl (Version 1.1. Revised 1999/11/15.)

  Inserts a "See also" index marker. IE one that looks like this in the index:

  			apples
  				See also fruit
  

• DocChooseConditions.fsl

  A simple script to help choose what conditional text to show. (I wrote it 'coz I find going through FrameMaker's conditional text dialog boxes clumsy.)

  It allows you to show all conditional text, or show none, or show one of the conditions. (It doesn't allow you to show more than one [but not all], mainly because FrameScript doesn't provide a convenient way to allow the user to select more than one option from a list. Sigh.)

  It also asks if you want to show conditional indicators or not.

• reading_paragraphs.fsl (Version 2.0, 2000/10/06)

  A simple demonstration script that shows three ways of looping through a document and extracting paragraphs from it.

  Here is a sample file you can use. It has paragraphs in all the places I can think of where you can put them (disconnected pages, different flows, text frames, etc.): test_for_reading_paragraphs.mif . This sample uses this text_insert.txt file. Here is the output of the script for this sample.

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