Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Sir:
 With respect to your comments regarding use of
XYWrite with the Internet --
 A very significant amount of my word processing
work deals directly with the upgrade (new
files/documents) and maintenance of my web site.
I've tried other word processors and, of course
HTML editors like HOTDOG, and none of them even
approaches the speed and simplicity of using
XYWrite. Obviously XYWrite (and/or NOTA0 BENE)
could be better in this regard (nothing is ever
perfect) but both of them are head an shoulders
above all the rest.
 Its sad that they are so close to being what an
HTML editor should be, but (like your IBM example)
there appears to be nonone in either organization
willing to hear suggestions or to consider this
type of authoring. We're still hung up on
supporting those who publish in "ink on paper".
As far as we've come moving from the typewriter to
word processors for "ink on paper" publishing, we
seem to have a hangup in considering that more and
more publishing is moving from the INK to the
Internet Screen.
 OH WELL, some day ...
Dick Giering

Tom Robertson wrote:
>
> Dear Folks:
 ...
>
> Years later, when IBM did its little flirt with Signature, I
> thought, "Hot dog! These are the people who designed the 101 key
> keyboard, and surely there will be folks there who will
> understand "keyboarding efficiency" particularly as related to
> writing, so we could get on with the show. I was mistaken. No one
> at IBM that I could find, and I had top level access, really had
> any overall idea of how computers are used in writing and thus
> there was no one who could understand the efficiencies available
> from XyWrite/Signature.
>
> Nor did XyQuest or as far as I can tell nor does Technology Group
> or NotaBene.
.....  ...
>
> MS Word. And while Word is getting better, the good writing
> features are becoming an increasingly small and easily lost part
> of the whole software package and its increasing focus on
> Internet integration.
>
> Now here is what I see interesting here. In Microsoft Internet
> Explorer, with a text-oriented web page on the screen, go to the
> menu line and hit View, and then Source. What you will see is a
> page full of  which are essentially a similar format to
> XyWrite. Thus, in my view, the programming used in support of
> writing may be coming full circle, with most of the code for
> writing simply embedded in the document itself.
..... ...
>
> Better yet, what can be done to constantly increase the ease and
> productivity of the writing process.
>
> Of course a lot of these kinds of questions are daily answered in
> this list, for which I am ever grateful.
>
> TR
>
> Thomas A. Robertson
> 529 10th Street, SE
> Washington, D.C. 20003-2807
> Phone: (202) 543-7545
> Fax: (202) 543-7622
> e:Mail: t1r@xxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Harry
> Binswanger
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 8:35 PM
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media
>
> >If giving a near-monopoly on the operating system to a company
> that wants to
> >sell *applications* is such a great idea, how about 
>
> Guess who "gave" MS the "near-monopoly"? Users. By their
> purchases. It was
> not a Government 5-year Plan that did it. Nor can such a plan fix
> things.
>
> I'm hoping the new fusion of Apple and Linux will provide a
> better
> alternative than Windows (which I curse daily).
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx