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Good Grief! My Mac sent another unfinished email. How unMaclike!
To complete the thought, if anyone is reading: "Someday someone may in fact gain access to enough core code, and that code may be such that it would be feasible to overcome some" of the technical limitations people have identified. Was/is there
anything beyond the file-size limit? That was never an issue for me, since it has always seemed more efficient in most ways to break long documents into smaller parts, and I really don't remember encountering anything that could count as a bug.
Myron
I agree that the opinions are mixed. That in itself probably says something, since we are a group of
people arguably in the best position to appreciate how XyWrite would have something special to offer
at this point in history. I haven't seen anything that
highlights a XyWrite-fillable need, given the way people use computers and text.
It is nonetheless worthwhile to have these discussions from time to time. Someday someone may in fact gain access to enough core code, and that code may be such that it would be feasible to overcome some
Myron,
I got into this discussion to see if there is a modern need that would make it worthwhile to pull XyWrite into 2018. So far, there’s been a big mix of opinions.
Personally, I’m nostalgic about XyWrite. I used to support if for my publishing clients. I’m also nostalgic about my job as a programmer at Atex where the editor was born.
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