Interoperability between XY4 and Notabene 9/10

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

I have been trying to establish file compatibility between a XY4 in a
window in XP and Notabene 9 and 10, without a great deal of success. (I
cannot use XY4 full screen because I operate my monitor in portrait
orientation and full screen is always landscape.) I usually work in
Notabene now; if I take one of my NB files and open it in XY4, I can get
all the accented characters to translate correctly if I use codepage
1252 (as per Robert's ANSI instructions in help) but it also changes the
look of XY4, so that for example the line between the status line and
text becomes a row of ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ's.
In addition, any text generated with accented characters under codepage
1252 neither reads correctly in XY4 nor translates into NB. I presume I
need a new font too, but have been unable to solve this problem yet.
Going the other way I cannot find a convenient way of importing text
generated in XY4 in NB; I've tried XY2ANSI and the various import
filters in NB for ANSI and DOS. The only method that appears to work is
to save the file in XY4 as RTF and then open that in NB but that is far
too cumbersome for my purposes.
I an not certain if Robert's ANSI1252.ZIP package will help here by
allowing me to generate and read text in an XY4 window in codepage 1252.
 However I cannot find a copy of the file to try it out. Is there
anybody here on the list who operates in this way regularly who can
suggest the simplest way of accomplishing this.

Paul Breeze