Re: Nota Bene

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Anne,

Good letter. I will post to the Xy list that NB should be supported. And I'm happily using 9 now
that I've made the customizations I needed.

Regards,

Harry

"Anne Putnam"  wrote:

>Dear XyWrite friends,
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>We are pleased to announce that have just released Nota Bene version 9. We
>hope that those of you who have not yet purchased Nota Bene will do so, and
>that those of you who are using older versions of Nota Bene will upgrade.
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>Until July 31, we are offering Nota Bene to XyWrite users at our student
>prices. We know that many of you don't use all of the academically-oriented
>functionality of Nota Bene, so we are making the program available to you
>for $249, a savings of $150 compared to the regular price of $399. To take
>advantage of this offer, go to www.notabene.com, click the Cart button and
>enter "XyWrite" as a group name at the top of the form. If you already have
>Nota Bene and would like to upgrade to version 9, click the Login link at
>the top of the same form.
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>For the past decade or more, we've been debugging the XyWrite code. The
>current version of NB is very stable, and it still uses all the XyWrite
>commands, has the convenience of fast keyboard control, and can run your XPL
>programs. NB also includes powerful RTF filters. Your XyWrite files (DOS or
>Windows) can be opened in Nota Bene, edited in Nota Bene, and then converted
>to RTF so that you can send them to someone who uses Word. And, in response
>to questions on this list, an en dash can be entered easily in Nota Bene and
>it converts flawlessly to Word via Save As RTF or by copying and pasting.
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>For those who are thinking of upgrading to v9, the new version adds
>real-time, visually identified, spell checking with misspellings marked with
>red squiggle underlining, or with an optional yellow background. We've also
>introduced a new "regularize document" feature that can be very useful in
>stripping unwanted codes from documents, particularly documents that have
>been imported from other programs. For information about new features and
>improvements, see www.notabene.com/upgrade_90.html
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>Perhaps most importantly, we are now working on converting to 32-bit so that
>NB can be used on 64-bit operating systems. While version 9 is not yet fully
>32-bit, the revenues from v9 upgrades (and new purchases) are playing a
>significant role in financing this conversion. We are fortunate to have two
>XyWrite programmers available to work on this--Dave Erickson and Sam Cheung
>(see the 2nd of "3 More Reasons" at www.notabene.com/upgrade_90.html for
>details). Please help us reach the goal of a fully 32-bit program by
>purchasing v9 now. With your continued support, we plan to keep this code
>working now and well into the future.
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>Best to all,
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>Anne
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>Anne Putnam
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>Nota Bene
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>www.notabene.com
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>aputnam@xxxxxxxx
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>800-462-6733
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>718-382-1500
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