Re: Xy4 Setup

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

" On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:08:12 +0900 (JST), Yo Intl. wrote:
" >I think XY4 feels "notchy" and a little rough, compared to XY3. I know
" >about the added features, but what good are they if you don't feel
" >comfortable with your software?
"
" Well to extend your simile, what Xy4-out-of-the-box needs is sanding
" and polishing. It can be made to look & behave (& function, vid. AR)
" like Xy3 in practically all respects; even things like window borders
" (the look of these alone were enough to make me seriously consider
" chucking it) can be changed with minimal trial and error. It's just
" doing so can seem like a pita after having used the other for going on
" ten years (things like settings.dfl which strikes one as monstruous at
" first, actually turn out to be pretty tame), and the manuals are just
" short of what they should be: things are in notes which should be in
" the bodies of references or listed as parameters at the top, and the
" index is not very good. 
" Rafe T. " raphaelt@xxxxxxxx " http://www.ray-field.com

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	I had trouble initially installing it because of the
	default colours that seem to have been used making
	it invisible on my monitor except for the highlight
	bar.

	I'd like to have a better installation menu that would
	ask questions as Qedit, now TSE editor, did to set up
	a few layout defaults. And multiple printers one after
	the other for those who use multiple printers or "printer-files"
	these days.
	Pulling files that you think you needed after the fact
	was not as simple as XY3, which was a simpler? age.

	But it's all water under the wheatstone now. Xy5, the Smartwords
	(I see there is a product called singularly Smartword from
	someone else) product will have a wonderful help manual
	fully indexed, written well and printable as ASCII text
	in full or as a graphical (Windows) 1000 page manual from on
	the CDrom, along with 14 language dictionaries that get
	out of the way of the text being worked on when spelling-checked
	and accepting unicode for the CJK Asian character set.
	N'est-ce pas, Ken Frank?

					Daniel Say
					say@xxxxxxxx