Re: what about nota bene

[Peter Cassidy pcassidy@xxxxxxxx]

Andy,

Did you get it to stay up for long? I downloaded the demo in a moment of
desperation and it just constantly stalled and blew up.

Peter

Andy Turnbull wrote:
> people talk about nota bene as though it were an updated xywrite.
>
> I tried it, and thought it was more like word than like xywrite.
>
> things I like about xy
> -- being able to write without formatting first
> -- being able to change margins etc fast and easy
> -- one step combinations to remove a word, or to the end of a line, or
> to the end of a sentence, or a paragraph
> -- 9 windows
> -- command line controls, not mouse
> -- being able to write cusom routines into the keyboard. (I started
> with New York Times keyboard, now highly customized from there)
> -- wonderful spell check, much better than word
> very simple operation. When I started I had an it guy who set it up to
> work like a typewriter, and then we added custom features as we
> thought of them
> and so forth
>
> did I miss something in nota bene? I just tried it for a few times,
> then gave up because it seemed to want me to make a lot of decisions
> -- the kind of decisions I leave to typesetters -- before I started
> writing. If it can actually work like XYwrite, in a windows program,
> that would be great.
>
> andy t
>