Re: XyWrite Versions

[Herb Tyson tyson@xxxxxxxx]

Actually, helping David R. with XyWrite Made Easier was my
introduction to XyWrite. When I first heard the name, I thought it
might be some kind of laxative. Little did I know...

I was doing some consulting for a company in Springfield, Virginia,
when for some odd reason a friend of David's introduced us. I've
completely forgotten how it came up--maybe because I was dabbling in
writing and since David was a writer, etc. Anyhow, it arose that
Rothman was working on a book and needed a technical editor, and
doing the job would net me a free copy of something called XyWrite.
That was back in the days when word processors easily cost over $500,
and I was more than fed up with WordStar. So, getting a free wp just
for being a technical editor seemed like a good deal. Hah...

And the rest, as they say, is infamy... er, history. I always get
those two mixed up!

Herb Tyson 
http://www.norloff.com/tyson


On Wednesday, July 23, 1997 10:58 PM, Stephen Moore wrote:
> Judy Stein wrote:
>
> > Let's not forget Herb Tyson, author of "XyWrite Revealed" and
> > hundreds of programs and macros for XyWrite. (Don't know how
> > *early* he got into it, though; the book was published in 1990,
> > but he'd been working with XyWrite for some years previously.)
>
> Amen to that. As the TAB Books (later McGraw-Hill) acquiring editor
> on _XyWrite Revealed_, I had the good fortune of working with Herb,
> and also mercilessly picking his brain for XPL tips. Seven years later
> his book is still one of my most-used computer references. His major
> XPL adventures at the time were EasyXy and PowerXy (also still in
> use).
>
> Several years earlier (1987 or thereabouts) Herb was one of the
> contributors to David Rothman's book, _XyWrite Made Easier_; at the time
> I got the impression he already was well known as a XyWrite expert, but
> I don't know for sure how far back he does go.