Re: hardcode.pgm anomaly--third try

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

I patched the XyQuest version of hardcode.pm, replacing "fix"
with }*{ and changing VAAO to VAAOT. It seems to work OK, but I
just discovered another bug: it does not correctly translate the
Speedo smart quote characters 264 and 265. Another legacy of Xy3,
no doubt.
At first I thought it might be the ad hoc printer file that
hardcode loads, but even with Xy re-started and my regular prn
file (Postghst) loaded, the smart quotes (and several accented
letters) are just black blocks.
So that means, what? I have to run markup, then hardcode, then
SA/HTML if I'm to get this piece into HTML. (Because SA/RTF does
not correctly handle muti-level autoincrementing codes. Neither,
for that matter, does WordImPerfect, which insists it knows
better than I how I want to style them: fonts, indents, etc.)
In fact, Xy is the ONLY program I know of that doesn't make mice
feet of autocounters. Perhaps it would be possible to create a
hardcode.prn that did what it's supposed to but also recognized
High-Order Speedos chars?