Re: Footnotes, XYWrite and Word

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

Paul,
I agree with Ed. My book publishing experience extends from the late 80's
as well and ASCII has always been acceptable; it is to the new publisher to
whom I am currently under contract as well. I can't think of an advantage
NB would offer, save as a translator to .doc format, but I believe others
on this list have recommended better software to convert. BTW you say
"footnotes," but do you mean endnotes? If so then the issue might be moot.

Michael Norman

At 2/28/2002 11:22 AM -0800, you wrote:
> 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
> >
> >