Msg: RE: Nota Bene

Reminder – The Nota Bene sale for XyWrite users ends at the end of this month. If you’d like to order Nota Bene for $249 (regular price is $399), you can do so by going to the following page:

https://www.notabene.com/xywrite.html

This page will be active until the end of the day July 31 (or until we get around to taking it down—probably the following Monday).

Thanks for your interest.

Anne

Anne Putnam

Nota Bene

www.notabene.com

aputnam@xxxxxxxx

800-462-6733

718-382-1500

From: Anne Putnam [mailto:aputnam@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:42 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Nota Bene

Dear XyWrite friends,

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.

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.

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.

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

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.