Buglettes or Features?

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

I have been using XYWRITE 4.015 for a couple of years now, currently on a
Gateway 66V with DOS 6.2. I am now for the first time printing out camera copy
for a book on a HP Deskjet 500 using a Garamond (C2109C) font cartridge, which
is supported by the XY driver, and does not otherwise yield problems.

On this project I have run into some "features," not previously tried, that I
am hoping someone has already found workarounds for, since they aren't
acceptable in the finished book. The last thing I want is to be forced into
W** P** to get this job done.

1. When using odd/even running heads, RHO and RHE deltas don't work. The
contents of the RHO delta, with or without a RHE counterpart, appear on every
page. An RHE delta alone doesn't do anything at all, no matter where it is
placed.

2. Footnote placement is poor, with a good number of notes beginning the page
after they are keyed in, although there is plenty of room on the proper page.
In one case, the remainder of a footnote appears 2 pages after the beginning,
although there is nothing on the page in between to interdict footnotes.

3. The superscript footnote key appears in 12pt, slightly raised, which looks
terrible with 12pt text. The same thing happens with the Times Roman
cartridge. On the other hand, using the unattractive CG Times built into the
printer ("Dutch" on the XYWRITE font menu), which requires image mode, the
superscript is too small (6pt) to reproduce well, and the left single quote,
which normally looks like a real single quote mark, looks like a monospace one,
unusable for camera copy.

Any suggestions?

-- Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-3325