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I am a translator who has been using XyWrite for almost
fifteen years. Both commercial publishers and university presses are
now refusing to accept disks in XyWrite, which is widely believed to be
extinct. An editor at a New York house that insists on Microsoft
Word congratulated me on being the last known speaker of XyWrite ("Is
your mother tongue Cornish?" he asked)...
I gather however that it is still possible to work in
XyWrite and convert to Word format, either by saving files as Word 5.5 or as
RTF. I tried the first method (copying a test file to a disk) but on
trying to open the file again in Word was told that the application associated
with the selected template could not be started or the application could not use
the selected template.
No doubt I have made some very elementary mistake.
Rather than go on making elementary mistakes (something I am good at doing) I
thought I would be better off seeking expert advice--hence this
query. Can anyone walk me through the procedure?
With thanks in advance etc
Malcolm DeBevoise
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