Re: Wikipedia entry on XyWrite

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

don't forget the extraordinary THREE completely independent levels of
footnotes - - - to this day no other program has that - - so far as I
know - -


SPEED is something to be emphasized. Compare something as simple as
search/replace with Xy3/4 and MSW on even the fastest available machine .
. . . .


BILLIONS of other things save VALUABLE SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS of
productivity every day.


I think 'search for content in files' is still probably more powerful and
foolproof than anything else yet . . . .


If you counted up all the PAUSES you have when waiting for one of the
normal WP programs today . . . . in every task - - - XyWrite is just
about the only program I use that was built with the absolute conviction
that the user is not to wait for even a fraction of a second for the
computer to do something.


I bet if you actually looked at mailmerge tasks you'd find XyWrite pretty
remarkable.


By the way, what's all this about Signature being so slow? Was it really
that slow? I don't remember it being quite that bad. I
think I reviewed it in something called 'PC Sources' -- which later
either became or was merged into Computer Shopper?


At 6/14/2008 02:53 PM, you wrote:

> > > E.g., is this (which I didn't
> > > edit) correct:
> > > XyWrite does not have as many features as Word or Open
> > > Office.
> >
> > Well. one should add ....