Define {in NB}

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 1/18/2004 10:03 PM -0500, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> You gotta remember that your NB install opens documents by default in Graphics
> mode. I'll bet you didn't open Xy4 documents in Graphics mode. No way!
> There's a world of difference...
>
> Now, I open NB documents in eXPanded mode, just like I do Xy4 documents. Same
> old same old. My NB installation runs almost identically to my Xy4
> installation.

What I didn't remember (consider) was that the two programs in some way
mirror each other. You're right -- I never work in XY graphics mode. (Can't
say why I thought NB's graphics mode would behave like XY's draft or
page-line view -- where I like to work. Perhaps _Windoze_ is a literal
neologism. BTW the assumption behind the program's defaults is that users
will indeed work in graphics view, as the authors say in their help notes.
Anyway, I don't mean to instigate a discussion on the philosophy of program
design. Point is LL and LR work fine in the other views, as you said.) I'm
guessing that most folks do not work (on manuscripts) in expanded view, for
obvious reasons, but I've grown accustomed to the XY's deltas, which you
can effect in draft view, or not. The font in draft view (courier) stinks,
but _dmfont_ can take care of that (though, as Anne Putnam warned here
awhile ago, you lose the double arrows on the command line, replaced by
other symbols). I see on XyWWWeb that U2 has a dmfont routine; I'll look
there first. Let me load everything up, following your advice in the other
post, perhaps ask another question or two here, work with it for a few
days, then return with some impressions and perhaps provoke a discussion on
the program. Thanks.
Michael Norman