Re: Interoperability between XY4 and Notabene 9/10

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks, Kari, but my hope was to find a way of allowing the two
universes to communicate without the need for external translation. I
do all my work in NB these days but have recently reinstalled XY4 to
help with fault-finding for NB10. I still love the simplicity of the XY
interface and would probably start using it again for some writing
projects, but not if it involves third-party translation backwards and
forwards -- hence my query.


Best wishes

Paul

On 19/12/2012 06:24, Kari Eveli wrote:
> > In addition, any text generated with accented characters under codepage
> 1252 neither reads correctly in XY4 nor translates into NB. I presume I
> need a new font too, but have been unable to solve this problem yet.
>
> I would keep to two universes separate, keep Windows files as ANSI text and DOS files as ASCII text
> and do a conversion with e.g. EditPad Lite. This means that you have to somehow fix formatting
> codes, but a couple of Xy routines can do the job automatically. E.g. Xy3+ «MDNM» becomes
> ®MDNM¯ when converted to ANSI. A bunch of CI commands is all that is needed.
>
> A more advanced solution would be to write a filter with an external programming language. Personally I find that DOS Clipper and nowadays Win Harbour/HMG have the tools to do these kinds of filters. I have written several to convert DOS Xy files to other encodings, e.g. ANSI and UTF-8. HMG is a xBase Windows compiler with modern features, see: https://sites.google.com/site/hmgweb/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
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