... In our office, we regularly draw upon a huge library of legal documents that were written in Xy 3+, and which are heavily and precisely formatted with Xy deltas. In testing that at home, I have found NB to be a total non-starter. Attempts to import any of these documents yields apparent gibberish, in a typesize so tiny that you would need a microscope to read it. Interesting. One of the things I've always valued about any version of Xy is that its formatting codes are fairly intuitive, and are hidden by only two non-standard characters.
I don't recall any brick-wall problems reading Xy4 files into NB. What
Xy3 codes produce problems when read by NB? Since NB reads and 'understands' basic Xy formatting, why can't the incompatibilities be corrected by search-and-replace? I'm guessing that there many have been an evolution in page layout, line spacing,
margin changes and similar things.
NB did not preserve XPL, so U2 and many other nifty Xy additions won't work, of course, but these are not necessary for text and its embedded formatting codes. What is missing or broken?
Myron
|