RE: XyWrite and C (in the 21st century)

["Anne Putnam" aputnam@xxxxxxxx]

Robert and Paul,

Thanks for the recommendations of Nota Bene. We certainly have spent years
and years of programming work debugging the XyWrite code. We've also added
many features that would be useful to any writers (not just scholars). Our
RTF filters are just one example.

By way of reminder, XyWrite users can purchase at a price that is $150 below
our retail price. That's $249 for Scholar's Workstation ($50 more for Lingua
Workstation with support for Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic). If you don't have
your serial number, just tell us which version of XyWrite you are using and
we will accept your order at the reduced XyWrite-user price.

Thanks for your interest.

Anne Putnam
Nota Bene Associates, Inc.
www.notabene.com
aputnam@xxxxxxxx
1-800-4NB-ORDER (800-462-6733)
718-382-1500
718-382-0003 (fax)


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Breeze [mailto:paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:21 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XyWrite and C (in the 21st century)

I agree with Robert on this. What I want is a windows version of XY4
and NBWin comes very close now. NBWin is not perfect but it does most
things I need it to do and integrates with Windows much more smoothly
than XY3 or XY4. If there are things that don't seem right, tell NB.
They have already cleaned up a couple of features for me but they work
on the basis of user demand so if only one person asks for something
difficult they probably won't spend much time on it.

Paul Breeze



Robert Holmgren wrote:
> It's pointless to dream about a "new" XyWrite, or a new program
> that does essentially the same things. An incredibly complex
> program like XyWrite takes (took!) YEARS to create and debug.
> Writing a word processor requires a very high level of skill,
> and tens of thousands of hours. NOBODY is going to undertake
> that from scratch.
>
> NBWin, built upon XyWrite, *is* the new XyWrite! What do you
> want from a new XyWrite that NBWin doesn't deliver?
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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