Re: Footnotes, XYWrite and Word

[Ed Cray cray@xxxxxxxx]

Paul:

I have written five books for four New York publishers since I first used
XY 3.56/7 in 1987. None of them had trouble reading XY discs.

Why assume your publisher will want Word?

Ed



On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Paul Breeze wrote:

> I am about to start work on a manuscript which will have a
> considerable number of footnotes. I'd like to work in XY3 or XY4 but
> I am worried about converting to Word at a later stage - a publisher
> is bound to want copy in Word format. Is translation from XY to Word
> of footnotes reliable? If not, does anybody have any other useful
> suggestions about how to proceed. Would NB be a better option, for
> example?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Breeze
>
>