Taboo Broken Again

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

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>From: "Sherry" 
>To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:01:20 +0000
>Subject: Re: page line view margins/mode problems.
>
>can't use redlining with my co-author's computer.. he's using xy3
>and i don't have xywin. any help with xy4?>
>
>> Sherry wonders about modes.
>>
>> >in xy4, if the cursor is at the end, mode command sometimes changes
>> >the text from the cursor on.. and if there are several modes already
>> >in the highlighted text and i'm now trying to change them all to one,
>> >mode command (such as control 2) won't work at all.
>>
>> In XyWin 4.12, it will.
>>
>> >Also, one last glitch, if i hit control 2 for bold to keep typing in
>> >bold, and move the cursor or delete something, i lose the mold and
>> >have to reissue the command.
>>
>> Either I misunderstand you, or XyWin 4.12 is different.
>>
>> >My co author and I use modes to identify our edits in 50 page chapters, so
>> I rely
>> >on them a lot.
>>
>> It's a long time since I used redlining and so can't remember how buggy it
>> is, but mightn't redlining be more helpful for you than emboldening?
>> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>> Peter Evans 
>>
>>
>Sherry@xxxxxxxx
>``If I knew the way, I would take you home.''
>

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