Re: Vdos automatically converts to/from Win Ansi

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Bill,

Actually, you do not have to be a dummy to use EditPad. It is one of
greatest text editors that I know of. You can use the free version or
the Pro version. The Pro version has the advantage that it supports
XyWrite text formatting mark-ups, which can be very useful if your text
is full of formatting changes (see:
http://www.editpadpro.com/cgi-bin/cscslist4.pl?focus=260). Anyway, both
versions can be used to edit XyWrite files.


1) Download the program from http://www.editpadlite.com/

2) Go to EditPad menu option: Options, Configure File Types. Click on
the New button at the bottom, write a description, e.g. 'XyWrite file',
in File masks put *.xy (if you use that or any distinctive file
extension, e.g. *.txb that I use for DOS txt files), click the encoding
tab and change the default encoding to 'DOS 437: United States'. Go back
to the definition tab, click on the first three of the buttons for
Windows File Associations. Click OK. Then if you make a file in XyWrite
with the XY extension, it is automatically recognized by EditPad as an
ASCII file.


3) Optional: If you want to have a specific font for ASCII files, use
the same Configure File Types menu and go to Editor Options and on the
first Edit button next to the 'Left-to-right' button, and a pick a font
in the Main font section at almost the bottom of the dialog, click ok
and you are done.


4) Then remember the feature discussed in my earlier post "EditPad keeps
automatically track of the changes you make in XyWrite if you check
'Preferences, Open Files, Automatically reload the active file if it was
modified on disk'. "


I hope you get it working.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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22.7.2015, 14:33, Bill Troop wrote:
> Kari, this sounds like a great suggestion but I don't understand all
> of it. For example,
>
>
> > Just define an ASCII file type in EditPad and associate it with
> > EditPad, then you have access to the same file as in XyWrite.
>
> I don't get any of the three points. Could we have a version for Dummies?