Re: Nota Bene

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 8/20/01 08:00 AM -0700, you wrote:
> Anne,
>
> I'm convinced (almost). I ordered Nota Bene yesterday.
>
> Jon
I ordered Note Bene about a year and a half ago and tried to use it on a
daily basis, but was simply too wed to XyDos to make the switch, but I use
Note Bene for many other tasks, use it as a kind of go-between for XyDos
and the world of Windows. For that alone I have found it worth the price.
It preserves XyDos to World formatting better than WinWord 97+ and allows
me to use my XyDos keyboard assignments to edit.
There are, however, a number of quirks, or rather, rough transitions
between the two programs. Some things stick or hang or freeze. For a month
I sent e-mails to Note-bene with XyDos requests and with many examples
where the two programs did not meet or mesh. I always got a prompt and
polite reply, often more than one, even though we could not "fix" much of
the dissonance. I mention this only in the hope that Ms. Putnam will go
through her files and dig out all the inconsistency reports and the
requests/wishes of the Xywrite crowd, turn those over to Dave Erickson and
encourage him to tackle them, particularly those XyDos to Note Bene
adaptations that cause the program burp.

Michael Norman