Re: XyIII Plus '[tilde]' Question

["Irv Thomae" irv.thomae@xxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998 23:17:43 +0000, Carl Distefano wrote:

>
>Reply to note from Stephen Moore  Sat, 7 Nov
>1998 08:25:18 -0500 (EST)
>
>-> Discretionary hyphen (DH) can be changed in Xy3. In your
>-> printer file, add this:
>->
>-> DF DH={character of your choice}
>
>If you say so. I can't get it to work in v3.58B.

 It works for me (with 3.57); "DF DH=" has been letting me use the tilde
for at least the ten years that I've been writing C++ programs, and
possibly longer than that. (I use XY both for general writing and for
programming - in the latter context, the tilde is sometimes
indispensable.)

 Irv Thomae
 (Who _still_ hasn't upgraded from XY III+)