Re: Xy & Ansi

[Jimmy C Diecker diecker@xxxxxxxx]

For those interested in more information about UniType, the 25 October issue of
*PC Magazine* has what appears to be a nice summary piece (one page) by Edward
Mendelson with specific pros and cons.

Also on the same page is a short review of Accent 1.0, a Windows Multilanguage
Word Processing program. This from the review:

	Accent 1.0's claim to fame isn't its feature set--which is suitable
only for simple documents--but its ability to load fonts and keyboard layouts
for 34 European languages, with spell-checking in 17 and hyphenation in 12.
This $299 word processor can also display its menus in any of 8 languages, The
result is as close to a multilingual word processor as exists today.

XyWrite and Nota Bene do get mentioned in the issue, but in passing. I've
noticed that in the major computing magazines they in general don't bother any
more to even mention any word processing programs besides the big three--Word,
WordPerfect and Ami Pro. Someone on the Nota Bene list mentioned one time that
Mendelson is an old "friend" of Nota Bene and XyWrite, so maybe that's how we
rated a line in a closing paragraph in the intro to the *PC Magazine* section,
to wit:

	In the shadow of the general-use powerhouses that dominate word
processing, several specialist programs continue to evolve: The Technology
Group's Nota Bene and XyWrite (for efficient text entry) Gamma Production's
UniVerse (for multiple languages, including Chinese and Japanese), and
Brooks/Cole's EXP and Personal TeX's PCTeX (for scientific use).

BTW, does anyone on the list know if Ami Pro has or is planning an OS/2
version?

Best wishes,

Jimmy Diecker
Latin American Institute
University of New Mexico-Albuquerque diecker@xxxxxxxx