Re: Interoperability between XY4 and Notabene 9/10

[Raphael rtennenbaum@xxxxxxxx]

sorry, wrong Paul -- shouldn't send emails before first cup of coffee.

On 12/18/2012 10:03 AM, Paul Breeze wrote:
> Rafe:
> Isn't that for Dosemu under linux? I'm running with Windows XP as the
> host operating system and XY4 in a command window.
>
> Paul
>
> On 18/12/2012 14:24, Raphael wrote:
> > Paul:
> > I assume you've played around with the character set settings in
> > .dosemurc?
> >
> > -Rafe
> >
> > On 12/18/2012 07:11 AM, Paul Breeze wrote:
> > > I have been trying to establish file compatibility between a XY4 in a
> > > window in XP and Notabene 9 and 10, without a great deal of success.
> > > (I cannot use XY4 full screen because I operate my monitor in portrait
> > > orientation and full screen is always landscape.) I usually work in
> > > Notabene now; if I take one of my NB files and open it in XY4, I can
> > > get all the accented characters to translate correctly if I use
> > > codepage 1252 (as per Robert's ANSI instructions in help) but it also
> > > changes the look of XY4, so that for example the line between the
> > > status line and text becomes a row of
> > > ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ's.
> > > In addition, any text generated with accented characters under
> > > codepage 1252 neither reads correctly in XY4 nor translates into NB. I
> > > presume I need a new font too, but have been unable to solve this
> > > problem yet.
> > >
> > > Going the other way I cannot find a convenient way of importing text
> > > generated in XY4 in NB; I've tried XY2ANSI and the various import
> > > filters in NB for ANSI and DOS. The only method that appears to work
> > > is to save the file in XY4 as RTF and then open that in NB but that is
> > > far too cumbersome for my purposes.
> > >
> > > I an not certain if Robert's ANSI1252.ZIP package will help here by
> > > allowing me to generate and read text in an XY4 window in codepage
> > > 1252. However I cannot find a copy of the file to try it out. Is
> > > there anybody here on the list who operates in this way regularly who
> > > can suggest the simplest way of accomplishing this.
> > >
> > > Paul Breeze