Re: the future of Nota Bene (was: Xywrite antiques)

[Dorothy Day day@xxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Peter Evans wrote:

> Anne Putnam:
>
> > Many XyWrite users have purchased Nota Bene, but frankly, I
> > am surprised that there haven't been more. We have a solid
> > program that would appear to provide what many of you are
> > looking for.
>
>
> When I do have to put marks on paper, half the time I have to include
> Japanese. Since I find Word and WordPerfect similarly loathsome, I try
> to do even this with an editor, making a web page and printing it out --
> and the hell with page division, etc.! Still, a word processor would be
> handy, and I'd certainly recommend a Japanese-capable Nota Bene to a lot
> of people. So:
>
> When will Nota Bene become Unicode-based and thus (or otherwise) DBCS-capable?
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Peter Evans peter@xxxxxxxx
>
>

Nota Bene for Windows is in fact already Unicode compliant, and many of
the necessary adaptations are done or in the works for several of the
most difficult languages. Arabic is substantially progressing, though
CJK is much further off.

Severe health problems prevent me from pursuing this as much as I (and
you) would wish, so I hope someone from NB will be able to begin the
long explanations that are required. I just want to reassure those who
have persisted so long that they are not hoping in vain. Unicode's
inevitability was recognized some time ago, and much work has actually
been done--though I'm sure much more remains to be done.

Dorothy


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