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I just caught this bit of the thread, so excuse me if this has been
mentioned already.
Chris Knight wrote: (snip)
> As has been noted, only in UNIX.
> The lack of a macro or scripting language is only one of several very
> important
> features that Frame for Windows is missing, relative to Word.
>
It is my understanding that FrameMaker does support scripting, through a
third-party software. I've only just begin to look into this, so I can't
evaluate it's facility or utility.
You can find more information on this software at:
Martin Smith posted an email a couple of weeks ago about using this
scripting program to create context-sensitive help from frame files.
Seems to point to its utility.
