RE: Two XyWin Conundrums

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

I haven't had your experience on my WinNT office machine with XyWin 4.13
after installing NB, but I offer the following comments:

1.	"bitmapped screen fonts" = Speedo fonts; therefore you should
restore the XWSET.DFL line that tells XyWin where to find them. XyWin uses
XWSET.DFL instead of XY4's SETTINGS.DFL, so changes in the latter will not
affect XyWin.

2.	In addition to the above, I only get the "box" line-end character if
in XyWin's WYSIWYG boldface modes. I recall that there has been some
discussion of this line-end character in the NB usergroup but do not recall
if any resolution was found.

I hope that the above can be of some help.

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx




> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Nathan Sivin [SMTP:nsivin@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Saturday, May 13, 2000 4:14 PM
> To:	XyWrite List
> Subject:	Two XyWin Conundrums
>
> After installing the trial version of NB, I have run into two
> strange problems with XyWin 4.12 (I also have XYDOS 4.018
> installed). Uninstalling NB, and then uninstalling and
> reinstalling XyWin, have not taken care of them:
>
> 1. Every time I open a file with XyWin, I get this error message.
> If I open the file by clicking on it, using the file association,
> the message is written into the top of it (yes, actually in the
> file):
>
>  2
> Cannot use mixed font mode. No Speedo fonts.
>
> Now I can't find in XWSET.DFL or XWSTART.INT anything about
> Speedo fonts. I normally print using Windows drivers or those
> built into the HP 4 Plus printer. There is no font directory
> under XyWin. I keep Speedo fonts under XyDOS, in \XY\FONT
>
> There was a default that read
>
> ; XY is location of bitmapped screen fonts and SCRFONTS.BIN
> DF xy=C:\XY\FONT\
>
> but I commented it out. I don't find anything pertinent in
> HP4PLUS.PRN.
>
> 2. In anything but WYSIWYG mode, what XY calls the carriage
> return displays as the familiar little left-pointing arrow. In
> WYSIWYG mode using XYDOS, it displays the same way, which is what
> I want. But in XYWin, it displays as an empty box, quite
> obtrusive and undesirable. The setting in XWSET.DFL is LC= 27, little arrow>. Since no setting is needed to produce the
> desired result in SETTINGS.DFL, I tried deleting the one in
> XWSET.DFL, but I still get the nasty little box. I note, by the
> way, that SETTINGS.DFL is a printer file (begins with ;PR;) and a
> default is set to code page 437, whereas XWSET.DFL is a ;DF; file
> and contains a LA850 delta on the first line.
>
> Any idea what causes this freaky behavior? I will be glad to send
> a copy of my startup or printer files to anyone who wants to
> examine them.
>
> COMPUTER     DELL DIMENSION XPS T500
> CPU        PENTIUM III 500MHZ
> RAM        128MB
> HDD        6.4GB ULTRA ATA
> BACKUP DISK    SONY CRX140S REWRITABLE CD-ROM
> DISPLAY ADAPTER  ATI XPERT 98D W\9MB MEMORY
> CD-ROM      40X MAX VARIABLE
> MODEM       US ROBOTICS V90 56K
> COMM SOFTWARE   NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR 4.08, 128-BIT ENCRYPTION
> PRINTER      HP LASERJET 4+
> SCANNER      EPSON PERFECTION 1200S
> WINDOWS      98 SECOND EDITION
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Nathan Sivin
> History and Sociology of Science
> University of Pennsylvania
> Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
> (215) 898-7454
> nsivin@xxxxxxxx