Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

["Paul Breeze" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC)]

Harry, I don't know if you have forgotten or are just choosing to ignore
the discussions you and I had with Steve at NB a couple of years ago on
just this subject.


Since the ideas were discussed then seem to be long-dead, can I remind
you and let others here know that NB already has a version of NB that
does essentially what is being discussed. I believe it is based on
NB10 but is stripped down -- I imagine it to be a 32 bit version of
XYWin, or possibly SmartWords -- and should run XPL programs without any
problem. As I understand it, this was never intended as a commercial
program and although we discussed the the possibility of it being made
available to XY users (at a price to be discussed) I suspect that NB has
never had the time to devote to it.


May I suggest that if there is a way forward with this discussion and
project, then it be to persuade NB to allow us access to this program.
If they have no time to perfect it themselves, then why not suggest that
we perfect it on their behalf -- with them retaining copyright.


Paul


On 16/04/2018 13:15, Harry Binswanger wrote:
Kari,

Excellent points. A souped-up XyWrite would be the best. Getting NB to
run U2 might be the only thing required. Except that I've been trying to
buy Dave E's time to do that for a couple of years now. Steve Siebert
has not opposed that arrangement, but there's no motion.

I wrote a couple of chapters of my last book using NB 9, and it was fine
if you don't need to use much XPL.

Regards,
Harry



Harry,

The most important reason may be just that we are used to this tool.
There are better text editors, command-line operated text processors,
other very customizable word or text processing solutions. Speed is no
longer an issue. But why change your ways when there is XyWrite which
has not changed in decades? So, do we really want a new XyWrite, or more
of the same with some technical adjustments to things more modern than DOS?

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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There are three main reasons why I, at least, want to stick with XyWrite:
1. XPL (and U2)
2. Command line operation
3. Infinite customizability
Now, if we're talking about creating a text editor from scratch, I'm
speculating that 2 and 3 are easily achieved.