Re: Xy4 spelling and Microlytics

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

auerbach says:
" The relevant portion of my settings.dfl:
"
" DF LX=3Df:\xy4\
" ;DF UD=3DFRANCAIS
" ;om=3D31 means microlytics; om=3D0 means signature, i.e. french
" DF OM=3D31
"
" Just sit in the lotus position and say, OM. 
" If I'm writing (my bad) French I can toggle to the Signature style
" speller, but use the French dictionary. Most of the time I use the old
" Microlytics dictionary, with OM set to 31.
"
" By the way, a propos of the previous discussion. I have, though not
" recently, helped five different people prepare camera ready copy of
" complicated manuscripts (footnotes, endnotes, foreign stuff (Greek in one=
"
" case), indices, ...) using Xy4DOS. While it wasn't my idea of fun, it
" wasn't all that hard. The only glitches to work around were some memory
" problems with indices (change the sort size) and some bugs with endnotes
" that required "hand formatting" a bunch of pages. Getting footnotes to
" have minimal problems was achieved by fiddling with BT settings. Never
" saw the point of XyWin; but then I never saw the point of Windows.
" --
"                     David
" -----------------------------------------------------------
" David Auerbach              auerbach@xxxxxxxx (David A=
" uerbach)
" Department of Philosophy & Religion
" NCSU " Box 8103 " Raleigh, 27695-8103
" -----------------------------------------------------------

	And the lamented Describe (only "died" last year)
	which ran on Win31, Win95, WinNT and OS/2--the latter
	the better platform--has that feature that 11 European
	language dictionaries could be assigned to various
	blocks of text for spell checking in that block. It was
	very nice.

	Though we did wish for the same in Xy3/4, it is to be hoped
	that something can be done for XY5/Martwords

	I still think that EMACS will come back in some form as we
	tire of the dreadful graphic files that we have to view and
	manipulate to create a good length of original text.

	"the" is three bytes in Xy, and several thousand in Windows
	programs. Sigh...

						D. Say
						say@xxxxxxxx