Can you point me to FrameScript samples that do some or all of the following? Or maybe even write the script for me for $$$? :-)

Question

Hi,
I'm brand new to writing FrameScript.  I'm looking for example scripts that I can piece together or perhaps you can give me a quote for your cost to write the script for me.  Here is a description of basically what needs doing.  We have .book files than contain say a cover.fm, multiple  chapter.fms, and possibly multiple appendix.fms.  (They actually contain more  types, but I can expand the script for that.)  I don't think here is a  consistent way to automatically determine which .fms are of which type, so I was  thinking of popping up a dialog box that showed the files in the book and asked  the user to identify which files were of which type.  This asking could be done  all at once, or it could iteratively ask for the first type then run all the  processing then ask for the second type, etc, etc.
The processing of each file goes like  this:
1) Delete the paragraph and character catalog  contents
2) Import all formats, including the new paragraph and  character catalogs from correct template file (chapter.fm, appendix.fm,  etc)
3) Remap the old paragraph and character tags to the  new ones, preferably based on an internal predefined, hard-coded table, but  possibly using the "use a remapping table that is in another .fm file" method.   It's just that the latter method requires the user to open two more .fms in  addition to the several other template files they'll already (correct?) have to  have open.
4) Report to the user all tags that are in their file  that are not in the new catalogs
Can you point me to pieces?  Write the whole thing?  Recommend someone who can?
Thanks,
Dave

Answer 1

Dave, if you haven't yet check it out, do visit the Framescript users group, here:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/framescript-users/
There are several folks who do contract FS work who post their contact info as part of that group (I believe there's a webring also). Also,  Rick Quatro has a good e-book "Crash Course" about learning FrameScript (although the book refers to an earlier version, almost all of the concepts are still applicable to the current versions of FS and FM) , check it out at
http://www.frameexpert.com
Sheila