Re: Missing descenders in Notabene

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 08:35 AM 3/10/2008, Bill Troop wrote:
> How depressing to read this thread. I seem to remember all these
> issues in XyWrite for Windows. You would have thought after all
> these years that there would have been a complete rewrite. GPFs? I
> haven't experienced those in a decade. It sounds like legacy
> problems with a clumsy Dos-to-Windows translator that have never
> been resolved. Why?
> And what's happening with Unicode, OT and OT-contextual support on
> NB? I wonder if there would be demand for a XyWrite-like program
> that had, or could have, rtf for its native format?
> Why can't they rationally redesign the program
I'm just guessing, but I bet a lot of the development there goes into
the other modules of NB -- their bibliographical software, their
text-based database, their foreign-language modules. These make the
package attractive to their market niche -- academics. Clearly, even
after all this time, there are still screen-handling issues with the
program. Those descenders Paul Breeze talks about -- in draft view
you can see them flicker in the first two lines of text when you type
in draft mode. I don't really understand the architecture, and the
problems created, when you try to combine 16-bit and 32-bit elements
in the same program. But I appreciate the flexibility such a hybrid
gives the user. By any other name, NB is XyWin.

Michael Norman