Re: A Real puzzler

[Frank Brownlow fbrownlo@xxxxxxxx]

Exactly. Shift-F8 is the better way into graphics view. I began using
it continually after a publisher sent me specifications for a book that
required fairly thorough-going typesetting. It worked perfectly, and
the end-result was just about indistiguishable from the publisher's
typesetters' work. This is why I like graphics view, why I still like
Signature as well as Xy4, and why this computer's still-mysterious (to
me) failure puts it off the desk for my purposes. I agree that, in my
esperience too, Xywrite--in any of its forms--has no real competition
for stability & capacity among word-processors when it comes to setting
up a page of type. Editors, unfortunately, always want Word--but then
they just want typescript, and that's easily supplied--though one has to
go around a block or two to turn Xy into Word.

Frank Brownlow

M.W. Poirier wrote:
>  I never use the command line to go to graphics mode. I use Shift+F8.
>  Could that be the reason why I have no problems with graphics mode?
>  I just tried the command line and there was no difference. Works like
>  a charm.
>
>  Regarding the graphics mode, I'll agree that it is not excellent, but
>  it is certainly useful if all one wants to do is obtain a sense of
>  what a page of text will look like when printed. One can even read
>  the text quite well in graphics mode.
>
>  I think some of you guys fiddle around too much trying to tweak the
>  programme and don't do all that much writing with the programme. ;-)
>  The programme is so confused with all of the tweaking that it derails
>  now and then. ;-) Seriously, I used Wordstar, WordPerfect 4.1, 4.2 and
>  5.1, NotaBene 4.5A (the last DOS version), a fascinating little programme
>  called TEXTRA for special projects with my students put out by Norton
>  Publishing, and now Xy4 for the past seven years, and none were as
>  stable or feature rich (with U2, of course) as Xy4. With NB 4.5a, files
>  would go bananas at around 80k. It was a very nice programme, ...other-
>  wise. Oh, I also have to use WORD to send pieces to the publishers.
>  They seem never to have heard of Xy4.
>
>  M.W. Poirier
>
> ------
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> >  
> > >  Is this really the consensus? I've always run XY4 in
> > >  a XP window, and I cannot remember having a problem with
> > >  the graphics view. I rarely have problems with XY4,
> > >  period. Am I just lucky?
> > >   
> > Damn lucky. When I try to execute FUNC WZ, it throws me into full-screen mode.
> >
> > I don't find the Graphics View to be good enough to use. If I want
> > something like that, I use NB 8 or (gasp!) Word.
> >
> > Harry Binswanger
> > hb@xxxxxxxx
> >