[MlMt] Create replies from templates

[Paul Sture]

On 3 Feb 2017, at 21:29, Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> On 3 Feb 2017, at 19:32, Martin Guddat wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a way to automate reponding to email without getting 
>> to generic, so I want to give a proper greeting as well as matching 
>> salutation. For this I would like to use something like templates. 
>> For a given response I would have to select from a set of options 
>> (salutation male/femame/unknown, formal or informal greeting etc) and 
>> fill the template with data I get from the mail.
>>
>> I found some discussion on templates and mail merge as well as some 
>> notes from Benny on "Commands"  19 Jan 2014, at 16:22) but nothing 
>> conclusive. Is there more available on this topic or anyone minds to 
>> share his workflow on things like this?
>
> One quick and dirty solution is to use a utility like TextExpander to 
> handle this and similar problems in other apps.
>

Typinator offers input forms and assistants, which might be more useful:

http://macosxnews.com/2017/01/19/typinator-7-1-powerful-input-forms-now-modeless/

http://macosxnews.com/2016/12/02/typinator-7-snippet-sharing-powerful-input-forms-assistants-more/