RE: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

[Philip White pdwhite@xxxxxxxx]

Hmmm. Am I getting the message that the original scripting format put out by XyWrite is no longer relevant?

 
What about the internal file format? If memory serves, that had ‘special’ properties due to an extended number of bits for each character.
 


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From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx  on behalf of Kari Eveli 

Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:49:53 AM

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Subject: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite
 



Hello,



The industry standard is most likely InDesign, but I do not know if it

makes any sense to try to support that program. (I personally use Xara

Designer for publishing and web design, an easy, affordable, and very

versatile program). It would have made more sense to support Ventura and

Quark back in the 1990's, but these are things of the past. There is

much open-source LaTeX code around, and integrating that into XyWrite

could be meaningful. Still, it is a very big effort.



Another point to concentrate on might be XML content editing which could

be formatted in various ways using open-source formatting code (e.g. The

Apache™ FOP Project, 
).
 Relevant

ideas on content editing might be gathered from DocBook markup system,

too. These things may be of interest to the folks at NB.



Best regards,



Kari Eveli

LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)

lexitec@xxxxxxxx



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> PS and if the current layout program is not LaTex, then we should

> research what the industry standard is and make Xy conform to that