Re: typing in lower case

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

It does what it does; it doesn't do what it doesn't do.
The mishandling of opening quotation marks and parens is
perhaps -- perhaps! -- forgivable, but the errors with
abbreviations like e.g., i.e., et al. and so forth, which
I use all the time, are the killers for me. It's too
distracting to be forever toggling AU.

By the way, Xy4 is more like a mid *90's* program, and
the bugs are all still there. And what's the point of
producing an XPL variant if it doesn't at least correct
salient defects in the original?

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx
http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/

> That's too harsh. For a mid 1980's word processing program,
> XyWrite's AU function was pretty damned marvelous. 95 % of the
> time, as a ballpark estimate, it did what it was supposed to do
> (or what the user WANTED it to do), and that one-time-in-20
> where some intervention was necessary was no big deal.
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)
> Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> To: XyWrite List 
> Subject: Re: typing in lower case
> Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 18:49:51 -0400
>
> Reply to note from "Morris Krok"  Sun, 5 May
> 2002 19:05:50 -0700
>
> > After succeeding in using Twincaps.pm, my memory reverted to
> > Herb Tyson's Capital.pm . This program capitalizes the first
> > word of the sentence making the use of the shift and caps lock
> > redundant.
>
> Morris:
>
> There's a built-in way to do that: Auto-Uppercase, toggled with the
> AU command. A reverse-video "A" in the upper righthand corner of
> the screen indicates that it's active.
>
> I'm not big on it. It mishandles quotation marks, abbreviations,
> URLs, etc. Look, e.G., at this sentence and what follows. "this is
> a sentence?" he asked sententiously. A mess. Tyson's routine is no
> better. I'll take the Shift key any day.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
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