FrameScript is a user-oriented scripting language that you can use to create your own scripts to automate almost any FrameMaker task. Using FrameScript, you can manipulate FrameMaker objects such as books, text, graphics, tables, variables, cross-reference and markers.
Topics include: when and why are scripts useful; ElmStudio; developing, testing and troubleshooting scripts: commands, messages and dialogs, subroutines and functions, lists; working with FrameMaker objects; adjusting existing scripts to suit your changing needs; developing a reusable code library; deploying and maintaining scripts.

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