Re: Quick Question

[Peter Cassidy pcassidy@xxxxxxxx]

What a clown. Tell him that Gabrielli may be a Renaissance composer but
his stuff is still played a lot today. For barbarians that insist on Word
you can cut and past into Word if you're using XY in Windows - or just
save it in "save as" mode with a .doc extent and then open it in Word
though you will have some formatting problems. I tend to author in Xy and
then format in Word for the barbarians. As I remember there are filters
and templates available for such situations but I dunno if they are
two-way, (allow Xy to save in barbaric formats.)

If you ever see that editor, punch him for all of us.

Peter


On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Malcolm DeBevoise wrote:

> I am a translator who has been using XyWrite for almost fifteen years.
> Both commercial publishers and university presses are now refusing to
> accept disks in XyWrite, which is widely believed to be extinct. An
> editor at a New York house that insists on Microsoft Word congratulated
> me on being the last known speaker of XyWrite ("Is your mother tongue
> Cornish?" he asked)...
>
> I gather however that it is still possible to work in XyWrite and
> convert to Word format, either by saving files as Word 5.5 or as RTF.
> I tried the first method (copying a test file to a disk) but on trying
> to open the file again in Word was told that the application associated
> with the selected template could not be started or the application could
> not use the selected template.
>
> No doubt I have made some very elementary mistake. Rather than go on
> making elementary mistakes (something I am good at doing) I thought I
> would be better off seeking expert advice--hence this query. Can anyone
> walk me through the procedure?
>
> With thanks in advance etc
>
> Malcolm DeBevoise
>