Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Myron,

My experience is that Xy4 imposes its ways over Xy3 files. Sure, you can
read them in, but from then on they follow Xy4 rules. Xy4 is a poor
substitute for a Xy3 editor. It gets too complicated.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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> I have always thought that Xy4 was essentially backwards compatible with Xy3 files. That is, I
> thought that Xy3 formatting codes were a true subset of Xy4 codes (Xy4 has all of Xy3 plus more).
> Over the years XyWrite changed the default ways of setting margins and the units used for spacing,
> but couldn't it still use the old ways if you told it to?
>
> Myron