Re: Goodbye Xy?

[auerbach@xxxxxxxx (David Auerbach)]

On 07/08/96 at 11:11 AM,
  "Dr J.L. Gordon"  said (in so many words):

>(of use keyboard) on the indent style in the floating style pallet. To me,
>this is easier than the Xy method: insert IP 5,5, type text, insert IP 0,0
>type text, insert IP 5,5 type text, etc. The great feature of a Describe
>style is that, if you later decide to change the amount of left or right
>indent of the indented chunks, all you need to do is make one change on the
> style pallet and then all chunks will be automatically changed. To my
>knowledge, Xy requires you to make each change separately. I know that you
>can do a quick search and replace, but that still is more complicated than
>the Describe way. Describe is conceptually

Whatever the merits of the other observations, this is of course false.
XyWrite has a) Styles b) one can select text and then issue the relevant
command and the selected text is bracketed appropriately.

More generally. What I do with XyWrite is write. Occasionally, for a
friend, I will do assist in camera ready stuff, but my general attitude is
that I write others typeset. Thus most of Describe is useless for me.
Perhaps if I edited a newsletter or something. I can send faxes from
XyWrite, I can send email and I can write. It is my one surviving non-OS2
app. Would I be happier if a) there was XyOS2 (yes; and despite their
brilliant sales analysis, so would TTG. They'll flop in the Windows world
when they could have succeeded in the OS2world) b) if TTG bothered to fix
the formatting bugs in Xy4 (hint: yes). On the other hand, my copy of Xy4
isn't going to wear out.



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                     Regards,
                     David

"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"
            -Rev. Sydney Smith, lettr to young lady, 22 July 1835


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