Re: screen- or script-writers' pgm and XY

["R Tennenbaum"]

On Sat, 2 Nov 1996 15:57:16 EST, Robert Holmgren wrote:

>** Reply to note from Daniel Say  Sun, 27 Oct 1996 15:16:18 -0800 (PST)
>
>Wicked Scherzo was (still is?) a neat BBS. Lotsa XyWriters. I lurked there
>for years. Bob Brody also developed extensive screenwriter programming under
>Xy v3.5x. A bright fellow, Bob. Haven't heard from him in a loooong while...

A year or so ago, Bob -- who has done some nice XPL programming,
including a program to, I believe, fax an order for a pizza pie with
anchovies to his favorite neighborhood pizzeria in two keystrokes --
had all but decided to give up on Xywrite simply because of a nagging
problem trying to code an all-caps style, which is sine qua non for
scripts.

>The best BBS was Henry Kisor's Word Processing BBS in Chicago. Don't know whether
>it's still functional or not. They were nearly _all_ XyWriters. It was great fun.
>Bob Locher, who I think posted here recently, might know; he lives in the vicinity.

A Hollywood BBS called Page (rather stringent membership
requirements, demanding proof of a sold screenplay, or five clips,
etc.) which I am trying out has several WinWord style packages for
scripting. I've been doing a little work in this area, and rather
than go through the trouble of trying to get these right in Xy
styles, for the moment I'm using one of these. It has the virtue of
knowing scripting form (mostly) better than I do.


  Rafe T.
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