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Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

If memory serves, that was true for *certain* characters, but not all.  RH wrote a couple treatises on this subject, which I'm sure I have somewhere.  (They were what I would consider "advanced user" material.)  They may also be linked on the Jumbo U2 page, or perhaps over at XyWrite.Com ?


 
 
 
  
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(Continued thought from previous post…) When I mentioned that XyWrite’s internal characters had an extended number of bits for each character, I was assuming that it was the case from my experience with Atex, which had a 16-bit character,
 the upper bits being used for formatting information. As such, I may be mistaken about
XyWrite’s internal character.



  


Does anyone know if this is also true for XyWrite?


  



  






From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  on behalf of Philip White 

Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:58:16 AM

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Subject: RE: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

 










Hmmm. Am I getting the message that the original scripting format put out by XyWrite is no longer relevant?



 


What about the internal file format? If memory serves, that had ‘special’ properties due to an extended number of bits for each character.


 




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From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  on behalf of Kari Eveli 

Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:49:53 AM

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

 







Hello,



The industry standard is most likely InDesign, but I do not know if it

makes any sense to try to support that program. (I personally use Xara

Designer for publishing and web design, an easy, affordable, and very

versatile program). It would have made more sense to support Ventura and

Quark back in the 1990's, but these are things of the past. There is

much open-source LaTeX code around, and integrating that into XyWrite

could be meaningful. Still, it is a very big effort.



Another point to concentrate on might be XML content editing which could

be formatted in various ways using open-source formatting code (e.g. The

Apache™ FOP Project, 
).
 Relevant

ideas on content editing might be gathered from DocBook markup system,

too. These things may be of interest to the folks at NB.



Best regards,



Kari Eveli

LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)

lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx



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> PS and if the current layout program is not LaTex, then we should

> research what the industry standard is and make Xy conform to that