Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

> ... For this kind of use, I think the Xy3 file format is far better than newer more complicated variants. Therefore, a modified Xy3 engine is what I would like to see. Xy4 has many amenities that serve their users well, but it is much more complicated to use as a rough and ready formatting platform for custom purposes.

I have always thought that Xy4 was essentially backwards compatible with Xy3 files. That is, I
thought that Xy3 formatting codes were a true subset of Xy4 codes (Xy4 has all of Xy3 plus more).
Over the years XyWrite changed the default ways of setting margins and the units used for spacing,
but couldn't it still use the old ways if you told it to?

Myron