Re Latin plurals, Xy and printers

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

There is a Latin plural of Venus, and it's Veneres; you
might also need it in comparative mythology, speaking of various
manifestations of the goddess (Venus Porne, Venus Genetrix, etc.).
	"Everyone...their" has many causes. One is the illiterate idiocy that
doesn't realize (or refuses to accept) that "he" is common as well as
masculine gender (and that masculine gender is not necessarily
coterminous with male sex). The other is the semantic fact that
"everyone" is often used with a meaning far closer to "all you guys" than
to "each separate individual." The most unrepentent anti-feminist,
addressing a roomful of males, might be tempted to say, "Everyone please
take their belongings." If I were editing that in writing, I should
probably change it to "Will you all please take your belongings" rather
than "everyone...his" (or "everyone...his or her" in mixed company).
	As far as printing from XyWin, if you're running any version of Windows
later than 3.1, and any printer but a Postscript or an HP LJ4-compatible,
you'll probably need to use the Windows printer driver, but XyWin works
with that. You lose a couple of native features, like printing reverse
order and upside-down, but you get all the TrueType fonts.
	Installing XyWin under 32-bit Windows can be difficult if not
impossible. If you have an installed copy on an older machine, you can
just copy it to the hard drive of the new one (direct cable connection,
or by way of a ZIP disk, if you have a portable ZIP drive that can be
hooked up to the old machine). Unlike even many 16-bit Windows apps,
XyWin created nothing outside its own directories (unless you let it put
the Bitfonts in the root).
Patricia