Re: Other Word Processors and Xywrite

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

Nathan Sivin, esteemed List-leader writes
" Dear Daniel:
" I use
" PC-Write 3.02 (for telnet email messages, and main for
" ED.DIR)
	I've never gotten over the trauma when early
	Microsofter Bob Wallace dropped the look-and-feel
	of PC-Write 2.6, though I can see the benefits
	(longer files than 64K) for the loquacious.
	PCwrite keyboard files and defaults did prompt
	my personal Keyboard in Xywrite.

*	HOW MANY OF US reworked the Xy keyboard files
*	to reflect an earlier Word processor?

" XYDOS
" XYWIN
	The raison d'[136]tre of this list.

" WordPerfect 8
" Word 97 (not yet installed on new computer because I dislike
" it so much, but it is only a matter of time, and I do use it
" elsewhere)
" WordPad (mainly to transport XY files to clipboard enroute
" to Netscape
	Window Gui utilities.

	I use Cstar for Chinese.to create GB code files.

" GNU EMACS, installed in my email account. Weird though it
" is, this is definitely a real word processor.
	And Ken Frank thanks earlier references to
	Emacs and its expansion-abbreviation macro
	that helped Xywrite fight a copyright case
	against another company that claimed rights
	to the autoreplace macro we use in spell-check.
      There are even users on the list who used
	an early kernel of Xywrite-3 which didn't have
	AR and were immensely grateful when it was
	pointed out to them when they upgraded.
	  I don't know how I could live without AR in
	various spell-suites/vocabulary lists.
" You might also want to count Netscape Composer, an extremely
" uncomplicated way to produce web pages.

	Well, we could and often do make macros for
	XyDos to write HTML codes, though it is simpler
	to convert a MAIL.PRN file to do a TYF ,web.htm
	from the everyday XYwrite codings.

	I can see the advantage of Composer, but I avoid
	frames, preferring text web for the blind.
	
					Daniel Say
					say@xxxxxxxx

" Cheers,
" --
" Nathan Sivin " nsivin@xxxxxxxx
"
"