Re: Startup in NB70.b

["Robert H. Kubie" rhkubie@xxxxxxxx]

I follow these threads about XyWrite and Nota Bene with awe. I have been
using both programs for a couple of decades but don't begin to know what
you all know about tweaking it and writing routines in XPL and the like.
But you have finally stumbled into an area where I have expertese. I have
been sailing, racing and cruising small sailboats most of my life.
The word is not "jerry rig."  It is "jury rig." I don't know why; I don't
have any explanation for either term. But I have been familiar with
nautical slang for at least seven decades. When you break your mast, cut
away the broken part, lash the boom vertically to the stump of the mast and
stay it , hoist a storm tri-sail on it and limp home; you have jury-rigged
a mast and a sail.

Anchors aweigh, everyone.

--Bob Kubie



At 11:10 AM 2/21/2004, Michael Norman wrote:
> At 2/21/2004 07:57 AM -0800, Lisa Kleinholz wrote:
> > Michael, I am following this thread with interest. I tried Nota Bene a
> > few years ago (ver. 5.5-3c) and couldn't get comfortable with it. Now
> > thinking of trying again. I'd love a report on your testing when you
> > get it done.
> I've been reporting piecemeal, Lisa, working at it a bit every day, but
> plan a more comprehensive assessment and set of impressions here later.
> Startup, for example, has taken a while. NB seems to layer its functions,
> its various calls in six different files -- nbmain-c.aux, nbmain-d.aux
> and so on. Robert will no doubt declaim this more clearly than I can, but
> these seem necessary so the program, and its two adjuncts ORBIS and
> IBIDEM, can maintain its schizophrenic nature: offering command-line
> control on the one hand and WIN GUI convenience on the other. It's often
> not a comfortable or easy coexistence. But, for the most part, it works.
> Much better than it used to work. My problems with startup, I think,
> illustrate to some degree the chores, and problems, involved in making the
> transition (Note please I still do my daily work in XyDos, where I never
> have to think about anything save the work.) At all events, it seemed to
> make sense to concentrate on startup first, to explore all the options,
> test all the jerry-rigging, try initially to get NB to ape XyDos ,
> especially with U2's CALLUP and SAVESESS, the two routines I consider
> critical; at the same time I'm trying to get used to NB's OPEN dialog and
> QUICKLOG, the WIN equivalents, and to get them to work the way I want them
> to work in case I decide to use them. The bottom line always is: can I
> ultimately make NB as invisible and effortless during the writing process
> as XyDos is?
>
> Michael Norman

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