I’m a technosaur and still found XYIII+ pretty easy. I started on a Kaypro with PerfectWriter, then began using Atex in an ofc setting. Adopted XY because of similarity to Atex. Was greatly helped by two things: 1, an after-market book (it answered direct questions directly and clearly) and 2, I surely didn’t’ use more than 2% of its capabilities, as I used it essentially as a glorified typewriter, never doing anything fancy. I loved it. Mornings on the way to the toilet I’d turn on the machine and by the time I’d pee’d it was ready to go. Eventually took on Word, reluctantly, when e-mail came in, but came to appreciate Word’s innumerable accent marks (critical in my wine writing) and auto-correct, which because of my steadily and alarmingly degrading manual skills has become critical. early on I recommended it to more sophisticated writers—and none even complained about its being hard to learn or use. People who recommended WordStar never got off so easily, did they? From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx
Interesting. I started using XyWrite with version 2+, and don’t recall it being particularly unfriendly. But, of course, I actually read the printed documentation from start to finish. The reveal-codes view made it easy to find and correct formatting problems, something that became increasing difficult with many other programs. |