Re: XYWIN CUSTOMI

[LESLIE319@xxxxxxxx]

 > Re the Windows character set, I'd hate to see xyWin shift from one rather
> unfortunate choice to another. To maintain compatibility with the original
> Mac QXP, when Quark ported the app to Windows it migrated not only the Mac
> keyboard map but the character set, while recognizing the Windows ANSI
> set. Given xyWrite's advantages as a dtp front end and the continued
> dominance of Macs for dtp, I would argue that TTG might do well to follow
> Quark's example and adopt the Mac character set with an ANSI alternative
> for xyWin. I use a > dtp-oriented word processor built on an 80x86 non-Windows gui not least
> because it too uses the Mac character set and keyboard map--a great
> convenience when taskswitching or converting. The Mac character set's
> typographic tilt helped give Macs the dtp edge, and of three subscribers
> who have been using xyW as a front end for QXP, two use the Mac character
> set.
>     --annie

I agree with annie. I think it would also be majorly useful if
Tech Group supplied keyboard files that had the Mac character
set.

--Leslie--
> ========================== annie fisher  nyc
> >