Re: XyWrite and C (in the 21st century)

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Bill Troop wrote:
> To give but one example, had XyWrite continued to be developed, it would
> have been recognized years ago that MSW was where the rest of the world
> was.
So if everyone else is an idiot, willing to be swayed by
marketing hype over first-hand experience, we should follow suit?
> So Xy would have tracked every new feature available in .rtf
and be
> able to replicate Word docs virtually exactly.
Absit! If it did that, it would have to be as bloated as Weird.
And have you ever looked at an RTF doc? They're quite as bad as
Weird when it comes to redundant formatting.
> The minute you're committed to absolute polarity with the latest rtf,

I really don't think you meant "polarity"; parity, maybe?

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Patricia M. Godfrey
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