RE: Xy4 Setup

[rrr@xxxxxxxx (Yo Intl.)]

RH:
>"This is a test of sie and Sie and SIe and SIE and so forth."
>That includes "sie", without capitalization. Xy showed no desire to change it.
>Why would it? (Unless, of course, you have "Sie" in your SPL file -- do
>you? The whole point is to enter it as "sie", set ZC=1, and *case is
respected*!).

I don't know if I am expressing myself poorly, or if there is some
sort of mystery at work. In the XY3 .spl file, the entry in
question is: "SIe Sie". Thus, XY3 dutifully corrects all instances
of "SIe" to "Sie", but leaves the "sie" alone. XY4 insists on changing
"sie" in all forms of capitalizations; thus I have to remove all of
those entries. And yes, the setting in the .dfl file is zc=1; I changed
that immediately after finding it.

>Anyway, wouldn't it make more sense to use a German dictionary? Then
>you don't need to fool around with SPL files for German texts (plus you
>can build a German SPL file, and load it for German texts only).

I would buy a German dict.spl if I found one, but it does not matter.
I quite happily work with my own accumulated .spl files for German,
Danish, and English, and switch between them and edit them all the time.
In fact one of them opens automatically at startup. Is that not what
XY is all about?

>The point, Rene, is that the anomalies that you are not-complaining
>about are readily addressed in most cases. Gotta be flexible! You don't
>have to eat XPL. But if you want to solve problems, XPL is the path that
>XyWrite opens for you.

I know, and I would love to learn more about it. One of these days,
I am going to open one of Annies macros and really figure it out. Maybe
even before SmartWords is released. :-)

--Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
--Jan 1999: Back to the future! EC fixes exchange rates.