Re: Nota Bene, XY on Linux

[Gavin Budge gbudge@xxxxxxxx]

I think the screen flicker problem in NBWin is history - I've been trying
out the latest version and never encountered it, and it hasn't come up on
the NB listserv recently.
As someone who hasn't used Xywrite much, I'd be interested to know what you
consider the deficiencies in Windows Notabene (and in ibidem). For me the
real selling point is the Orbis module (but I haven't encountered DTSearch)
- and the integration is very attractive. A few Notabene users obviously
make use of U2, so there is a certain degree of customizability, though
some of Carl Distefano's posts suggest this is limited.


At 09:05 AM 5/28/02 -0400, you wrote:
> Re :Patricia M Godfrey's inquiry about NB/ibidem and alternatives.
> I tried Nota Bene for a brief period and was on their listserv during that
> time. I could not solve some serious screen flicker problems, even with
> lots of RAM, so I gave up, started using XyDos in the DOS box with Uwe
> Siebert's wonderful DOS fonts (I'd been using it full-screen with
> Ultravision for years), and following the same route as several here,
> found an easy way to work with other windows programs and XyDos (like
> Reference Manager, my bibliography database program which runs rings
> around the NB module) and DTSearch, a powerful indexing program. A number
> of people here have reported that NB is buggy; a number of people on the
> NB list say the program works perfectly for them and swear by the
> integration of the various tasks. I had no luck with NB's tech support;
> others report the opposite experience. My verdict was this: since XyDos is
> the best WP for heavy editorial work, why not put that at the center of a
> jerry-rigged suite of programs (WP, bib database, text indexer and
> retriever) using the best program for each task.
>
> Michael Norman