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I supported Ventura Publisher for my publishing clients. Ventura was originally written for the short-lived GEM OS. When the first DOS/Windows versions of VenturA came out, it still ran in a GEM environment which was brought up as a DOS application which, in turn, ran Ventura. I discovered that Ventura’s internal tagged formatting script could be easily generated from XyWrite or Word Perfect. The result could simply be ‘poured’ into Ventura and the final ‘PUB’ was nearly ready to go with very few additional tweaks necessary. I think that XyWrite’s current potential would be to do the same for new apps that use scripted input.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:11:13 PM To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite Phil,
Yes, that is the message. PageMaker, the forerunner of InDesign, had Xy import filters. InDesign dropped them.
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Hmmm. Am I getting the message that the original scripting format put out by XyWrite is no longer relevant?
What about the internal file format? If memory serves, that had ‘special’ properties due to an extended number of bits for each character.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:49:53 AM To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite Hello,
The industry standard is most likely InDesign, but I do not know if it makes any sense to try to support that program. (I personally use Xara Designer for publishing and web design, an easy, affordable, and very versatile program). It would have made more sense to support Ventura and Quark back in the 1990's, but these are things of the past. There is much open-source LaTeX code around, and integrating that into XyWrite could be meaningful. Still, it is a very big effort. Another point to concentrate on might be XML content editing which could be formatted in various ways using open-source formatting code (e.g. The Apache™ FOP Project, ). Relevant ideas on content editing might be gathered from DocBook markup system, too. These things may be of interest to the folks at NB. Best regards, Kari Eveli LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland) lexitec@xxxxxxxx *** Lexitec Online *** Lexitec in English: Home page in Finnish: > PS and if the current layout program is not LaTex, then we should > research what the industry standard is and make Xy conform to that |