Re: Nota Bene, XY on Linux

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

Re :Patricia M Godfrey's inquiry about NB/ibidem and alternatives.
I tried Nota Bene for a brief period and was on their listserv during that
time. I could not solve some serious screen flicker problems, even with
lots of RAM, so I gave up, started using XyDos in the DOS box with Uwe
Siebert's wonderful DOS fonts (I'd been using it full-screen with
Ultravision for years), and following the same route as several here, found
an easy way to work with other windows programs and XyDos (like Reference
Manager, my bibliography database program which runs rings around the NB
module) and DTSearch, a powerful indexing program. A number of people here
have reported that NB is buggy; a number of people on the NB list say the
program works perfectly for them and swear by the integration of the
various tasks. I had no luck with NB's tech support; others report the
opposite experience. My verdict was this: since XyDos is the best WP for
heavy editorial work, why not put that at the center of a jerry-rigged
suite of programs (WP, bib database, text indexer and retriever) using the
best program for each task.
Michael Norman