Re: inappropriatenessness....

["Sherry" sherry@xxxxxxxx]

good reply.. and if newcomers don't like our list, they can go read
the archives.... I personally love the tangents

> " I only subscribed to the Xywrite Listserv five days ago, hoping I could find
> " out some new and neat tricks for using this wonderful program. For these
> " five days, however, almost every single message posted on the listserv has
> " had absolutely NOTHING to do with Xywrite.
> "
> " I am asking those who like to debate politics to please do so in the
> " appropriate places (as I do), such as other news groups or listservs. Or
> " email people directly with your comments.
> "
> " This listserv is supposed to be dedicated only to Xywrite, which is why
> " people subscribe. Non-Xywrite related comments are inappropriate, and only
> " make the writer look bad.
> " __________________________
> " Bob Zimmerman " 28-19 42nd Street, #D-1 " Long Island City, NY 11103
> " 718-626-3076 " email: zimmerman@xxxxxxxx
> "
> -------------- So, see the archives which have some hints and
> 	solutions.
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> 		What macros do you use in NASW?
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> 		Have you used one of the XPL programs to insert
> 	wirecopy into ongoing text?
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> 		and ...
> 	[comments on using many more fonts than XY provided
> 	 and the recent NB note about using XY stripping to
> 	 convert a file to LateX format for "pretty printing"
> 	 insert here ]
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> >From adpf@xxxxxxxx Tue Oct 21 19:15:26 1997
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> Carlo's msg about making up special-purpose modes otoh seemed to me the
> kernel of an interesting *XyWrite* discussion. Printer drivers have all
> sorts of offbeat applications that are discussed here rarely if ever.
> E.g., as I've said repeatedly, I replaced my PostScript driver's entire
> fb< with a Windows graphical app's PostScript prolog. Lets me use raw PS
> coding to draw in xyW3 and integrate EPS files with low overhead. And my
> html<>xyCodes conversion system uses a print-to-disk html.prn I wrote for
> down & dirty ci's. Somewhere I have a similar xyW->Quark driver that I
> plan to dig out and work on again when I get a minute. Getting modes,
> fonts, and whatnot sorted out in such drivers is a real challenge. Has
> PCL dulled everybody to the possibilities? Anybody doing *anything*
> innovative with xyWrite? 	--a
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Sherry@xxxxxxxx
``If I knew the way, I would take you home.''