Re: [SPAM ?] death to word

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Try to avoid keyboard-specific references (e.g., ctrl-t). We
all have different key assignments.

The easiest way to get, say, 10.3 pt text is to go to the command line
and enter
sz 10.3pt
> On 5/15/2012 8:22 PM, Frank
> Brownlow wrote:
> > I agree with all the strictures re.
> > Word, which is now really intolerable, but was never--in comparison with
> > Xy--satisfactory.  Like others among us I've been using NB, which is
> > fine except that the tables commands are still apt to clutter things up,
> > and from the type-setting end I miss very much the fully scaleable 
> > type setting commands in Xy.   And I've forgotten how to turn a
> > XY4 file into a .pdf.
> >
> > Frank Brownlow
> Maybe I'm missing some of the meaning, but I seem to be able
> to have fully scaleable fonts in NB. You can't use the Format/Font
> window, however, except for whole numbers (9,10,17,24 etc.) but if you
> put the cursor before the size you want to change, hit F9, and ask for
> 10.3 or 15.7, or whatever size you want, and then hit F10, NB will give
> you what you ask for.
>
> You can also, of course, go into Codes view, and make the appropriate
> changes there.
>
> XyWrite's Ctrl-T command is, granted, a bit easier.
>
> Nicholas Clifford