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Hello Jordan,
I have often had very good results simply cutting and pasting into
NB; usually you need to do after that is adjust the font at the
beginning of the document.
Harry, I find it unusual that NB 9 crashes daily for you. I
cannot remember the last time it crashed for me. Perhaps you
should simply reinstall (just run the installer over your existing
installation). I've been using NB since version 2, nearly 20
years ago, and version 9 is the most stable one for me.
Cheers,
Bill TeBrake
UMaine History, Emeritus
On 6/21/2012 8:34 AM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
Jordan says there is not much formatting in these
documents.
The simplest thing would be to go into expanded mode, run a pgm
to
extract everything that is in guillemets and put them into a
separate
file and either send that to the list or test it oneself.
Jordan: despite what you may be feeling now, this is NOT a real
problem;
this is some fussy little thing(s) which, once identified, will
be quite
simple to fix.
E.g., just for illustration, suppose from Xy3, you have a
and NB wants two arguments there , then you
just do a ci
/// and you're home free. And if
this is a
recurring problem (many Xy3 files to take into NB) then you make
an XPL
program.
In the main, NB is XyWrite with a few tweaks and a better screen
display.
I agree that NB 10 beta is not ready for us. I don't even find 9
to be
ready. It crashes daily in my use. Practically any editing of
footnotes
makes it crash. Unrecognized styles can crash it.
Dear
Jordan
I think there is a difference between XY3 and XY4 formatting
that can
affect what you see in NB. You might want to try the option
in NB9
of importing in NBDOS format (if you choose open and look in
the formats
box it should be there).
There are a lot of formatting commands from XY4 that NB does
not
recognise properly, as I recall. From what you describe, this
is
down to one or more of them. I generate everything in NB9 now
so I
never bump into those type of problem any more. By the way,
NB10 is
not really ready for XY users yet so I would stick with NB9
for this for
now.
You might want to check what codepage you are using with XY4
and make
sure this matches Windows and NB (sorry, I cannot now remember
how to set
about that now but somebody else here will know).
The only other option is to trawl through the document trying
to identify
the formatting commands that don't work. However if there are
a lot
of them it will likely be extremely tedious so I'm not sure I
would
recommend that. (Not much help I'm afraid.)
Unless we are talking about legacy documents here, why not
start
generating them in NB? There isn't much of a learning curve
and NB
is pretty easy to set up so that it will run with XYWWWEB.
Robert
has posted a video showing how to adapt it which you can
follow. I
don't follow his scheme and just make some minor changes to
the NB.DFL
file which I can pass on if you want. I also use NB's own
startup
file called NBSTART.INT, more or less filling it with what I
used to have
in XYSTART.INT. Oh, and there is a minor addition to
NB.DLG.
I'm sorry if that is not much help.
On 21/06/2012 00:17, J R FOX wrote:
Harry & Paul:
O.K., I just did a first trial of this and the results were
not
encouraging. The source was a moderately formatted legal
document. (If it wasn't confidential in nature, I might
have
supplied it as
a test sample.) Maybe the problem was that it was written
in
Xy-3,
rather than Xy-4 ? I could see there was a big problem from
the
very start, when NB first tried to open it. The document
opened
looking like some teeny tiny JPEG graphic, too small to be
seen
really, and at the bottom right status line it said either
"Unknown
Formatting Commands" or "Unrecognized Formatting Commands"
-- not
that it makes that much difference. (This was in NB 9, as I
haven't
done anything regarding NB 10 as yet.) I took no further
steps
at
this point, like trying to do a conversion to RTF. Did I
botch
this
by the way I went about it, or . . . ?
Jordan
--- On Thu, 6/7/12, Harry Binswanger mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx
wrote:
From: Harry Binswanger mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Attachments and HTML (was Re: XP & malware)
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 7:27 AM
I have been using NB to edit the later chapters of my book.
When each is in nearly final form, needing only tiny changes
and
proofing, I export them as RTF and take them into (ugh)
Word. The
translation part goes well.
Dear Jordan
I've just returned and haven't been following this thread
but I use
NB
exclusively now and convert into RTF regularly. For me that
has
worked well although there can be hiccups if there are stray
NB/Xy
embedded instructions. Then it becomes a matter of finding
and
eliminating them. I export large files containing tables
and
footnotes without difficulty. Is that of any help?
Best wishes
Paul
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