Re: File problem....

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

Bulls-eye. What would we do without Carl? I think we'd be a pretty
sorry lot.

The one disappointment in all of this is that I've discovered that my
favorite wordprocessor has an unrepairable flaw. That does put a bit
of a crimp in scholarly writing. But now that I know about it, it is
something that I can get around. All the same, it's too bad.

Once again, thanks Carl.

Maiben

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On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Carl Distefano wrote:
>
> Reply to note from "M.W. Poirier"  Fri, 26
> Jul 2002 21:13:51 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > I have a relatively short file of approximately 20 pages with
> > 34 footnotes, many of which are quite long.
>
> If the footnotes are long enough, they can exceed XyWrite's ability
> to format text for display and printing. This is not a "bug", such
> as the screen-refresh errors that sometimes afflict Page-Line view,
> but a design limit. I don't know what the maximum footnote length
> is, but I just created an 80K dummy file consisting of some text and
> three 23K footnotes (so that the footnotes comprise most of the
> file), and saw exactly the behavior you described. Scrolling in
> non-eXPanded view and an attempt to print to a file (TYF) both
> produced Error 52 ("Cannot continue scrolling"), meaning that Xy
> cannot allocate enough memory to perform those functions. Yes, this
> is one reason we need a 32-bit Xy.
>
> In your case, it sounds as though the difficulties may stem from one
> particularly long footnote. You might try dividing the file in two,
> so that the troublesome footnote is the first FN delta in the second
> file, or even in three, with the long footnote and accompanying text
> in a file all their own, using the SF and SP commands to adjust
> footnote and page numbers as needed. Or you can move all of the
> footnotes to a separate file, and append it to your main file to
> create endnotes, using automatic counters in both files to number
> the notes. (If you opt to move footnotes, DO NOT use U2 routine
> MOVEFN; it won't work if the footnotes do not display
> properly in draft view. I'm going to modify MOVEFN so that it will
> be useful in a situation like this.)
>
> Finally, there are, I hear, other word-processors. It would be
> encouraging to find out that NB for Windows has abolished the limit
> on footnote length.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
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