Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

["David B. Garwood" dbgarwood@xxxxxxxx]

I LIKE the idea of a 32 bit XYWin.  I am a lawyer, happily (mostly)
using 4.13 in WINXPPRO virtual machines running on WIN7 and WIN10.  If I
could get rid of the virtual part, I would, as long as the document
assembly, paragraph numbering, command line structure, etc.,etc. are
preserved.


David B. Garwood

On 4/16/2018 9:45 AM, Paul Breeze (Redacted sender paul.breeze for
DMARC) wrote:
> Harry, I don't know if you have forgotten or are just choosing to
> ignore the discussions you and I had with Steve at NB a couple of
> years ago on just this subject.
>
>
> Since the ideas were discussed then seem to be long-dead, can I remind
> you and let others here know that NB already has a version of NB that
> does essentially what is being  discussed.  I believe it is based on
> NB10 but is stripped down -- I imagine it to be a 32 bit version of
> XYWin, or possibly SmartWords -- and should run XPL programs without
> any problem.  As I understand it, this was never intended as a
> commercial program and although we discussed the the possibility of it
> being made available to XY users (at a price to be discussed) I
> suspect that NB has never had the time to devote to it.
>
>
> May I suggest that if there is a way forward with this discussion and
> project, then it be to persuade NB to allow us access to this program.
> If they have no time to perfect it themselves, then why not suggest
> that we perfect it on their behalf -- with them retaining copyright.
>
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 16/04/2018 13:15, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Kari,
>
> Excellent points. A souped-up XyWrite would be the best. Getting NB to
> run U2 might be the only thing required. Except that I've been trying to
> buy Dave E's time to do that for a couple of years now. Steve Siebert
> has not opposed that arrangement, but there's no motion.
>
> I wrote a couple of chapters of my last book using NB 9, and it was fine
> if you don't need to use much XPL.
>
> Regards,
> Harry
>
>
>
> Harry,
>
> The most important reason may be just that we are used to this tool.
> There are better text editors, command-line operated text processors,
> other very customizable word or text processing solutions. Speed is no
> longer an issue. But why change your ways when there is XyWrite which
> has not changed in decades? So, do we really want a new XyWrite, or more
> of the same with some technical adjustments to things more modern than
> DOS?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
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> There are three main reasons why I, at least, want to stick with XyWrite:
> 1. XPL (and U2)
> 2. Command line operation
> 3. Infinite customizability
> Now, if we're talking about creating a text editor from scratch, I'm
> speculating that 2 and 3 are easily achieved.