Re: xy reading

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

I'm also a journalist (mostly for medical publications).

I usually send my final stories by email to the publication. I send the ms.
both as an ASCII text in the body of the message, and also as a MS Word
file attachment. If they can't handle one, they can handle the other.

I usually write a ms. in my normal formatting, with ip8,0 paragraph
indents, running heads, page numbers, etc.

I strip out all the XyWrite codes with a ch \«W»\\ command (where W is the
ctrl-alt-W wildcard).

Then I import the ASCII file into Notepad. I select "All", "Copy", and
paste it in to both my email and my MS Word file, which I keep in the
EUDORA/ATTACH directory. I use an old copy of MS Word 6.0, but you could
probably use WordPad too.

For the ASCII part of the message, I turn off the word wrap, so the carrier
returns are at the end of every paragraph, rather than every line, when the
recipient gets it.

I haven't had any complaints.

Norman


At 11:02 AM 2/1/01 EST, Bob White  wrote:

>Long: How do non-Xywriters read Xywrite text? Here's the reason for the
>question. I am a journalist, not a scholar, but I had assumed --
>incorrectly, as it turned out -- that Xywrite was generally well known in
>academia.
>
>Despite my nonacademic status, I was asked to write a longish essay (for me,
>long is anything over 800 words) for a journal called Daedalus in Cambridge,
>Mass. All went well, even a couple of pages of endnotes. Contributors
>shipped drafts on paper to Daedalusl. After an authors' conference,
>revisions, and shipment of final paper texts, we were asked to send final
>texts by E-mail.
>
>That was new to me; my experience was with columns written at home in
>Xywrite, sending them by Procomm to my newspaper's Atex. So I experimented
>by sending my 10,000-word piece to myself as an E-mail attachment, which
>naturally opened seamlessly in Xywrite. I also opened it in MS Word --
>reasonably readable, it seemed to me, though a bit cluttered with format
>commands and with footnotes/endnotes in the text. All looked fixable,
though
>with additional work.
>
>Daedalus editors said they couldn't read the attachment and asked me to send
>a floppy. Though dubious, I did. Still unreadable. Daedalus people
finally
>said they would either scan the paper version or get necessary software to
>read Xywrite. Evidently they succeeded, because my article appeared.
>
>
>Bob White
>
>
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