Re: what about nota bene

["Andy Turnbull" andyt@xxxxxxxx]

no problem with keeping it. I just found it was not worth using.

andy t

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Cassidy" 

To: 
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: what about nota bene



Andy,

Did you get it to stay up for long? I downloaded the demo in a moment of
desperation and it just constantly stalled and blew up.

Peter

Andy Turnbull wrote:

people talk about nota bene as though it were an updated xywrite.

I tried it, and thought it was more like word than like xywrite.

things I like about xy
-- being able to write without formatting first
-- being able to change margins etc fast and easy
-- one step combinations to remove a word, or to the end of a line, or
to the end of a sentence, or a paragraph
-- 9 windows
-- command line controls, not mouse
-- being able to write cusom routines into the keyboard. (I started
with New York Times keyboard, now highly customized from there)
-- wonderful spell check, much better than word
very simple operation. When I started I had an it guy who set it up to
work like a typewriter, and then we added custom features as we
thought of them
and so forth

did I miss something in nota bene? I just tried it for a few times,
then gave up because it seemed to want me to make a lot of decisions
-- the kind of decisions I leave to typesetters -- before I started
writing. If it can actually work like XYwrite, in a windows program,
that would be great.

andy t






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