Mekon

Mekon's mTools plug-in for Adobe FrameMaker is now available, giving additional functionality including:

remove empty paragraphs
delete tabs within a text selection
delete all catalogue formats, table formats, paragraph styles, character styles and conditional text formats
show used paragraph formats on specific pages
generate a printable document detailing files contained in a book
perform find and replace on multiple lists of words in batch across a directory of files automated indexing

In addition mTools now incorporates mTools Plus and EDDTools, providing more functions.

mTools Plus functions include:

perform find and replace on multiple lists of words in batch across a directory of files automated indexing
create a document with multiple spelling versions of the same word, to be displayed based on conditional text
perform batch deletion of markers within a document
create an index by automatically assign index markers to multiple words in a document
print a document based on different page order and paper size

EDDTools is designed for EDD authors working in a structured environment. This component provides extra functions including:

import and merge element definitions from active EDDs
view SGML files in text format within FrameMaker
view the element definitions of highlighted text in the document
for any piece of text, generate the rules for the associated element in the EDD

mTools is under continued development and a number of extra functions are already planned for future releases. We would welcome any suggestions that you may have for additional tools or general comments about this feature.

mTools is compatible with FrameMaker v7.2 and earlier versions.

Supported operating systems

Windows 2000 (SP4) and Windows XP. A Macintosh version will follow at a later date.