Re: NB 8 (Trial version)

[Michael Norman mn2@xxxxxxxx]

At 04:28 AM 4/14/2006, Correo Fenda wrote:
> Robert Holmgren wrote:
> > I'm thinking to identify the few useful routines in all these AUX files,
> > simplify the XPL, focus especially on the VBX (Visual Basic) routines (which
> > can't be debugged), and boil all this down to one single, fast AUX
> > file. Later. Sometime, hopefully, before the Messiah comes.
> Great idea! The NB documentation, as far as I know, is pathetic too.
> We would need a "Customization Guide" like the XyWrite's one.
Seconded. I've been saving Robert's NB posts these last two weeks,
corrigenda-in-progress. XyWriters seem to prefer NB stripped down,
stripped of its bibliographic and database modules, easy enough to do
as RH's the old posts point out. Maybe the AUX routines can be
edited to the point where the main WP will behave like XY -- lean,
fast, utterly customizable. If someone does decide to prepare a
customization guide, I volunteer as a proof-reader/beta
tester/factotum. I think Mary Bernard helped write and edit the
current NB help files, gratis. She knows a lot about the program and
has been very generous with her time with this correspondent and many
others on the NB list. She's also one of the few posters on the NB
list who can and are willing to look under the hood. It's just a very
different kind of listserv. True enough, NB NY really should have
company-produced guides for such a complex product or an on-line
knowledge base. Then again not only do their tech support people
respond quickly, they actually know the product. Frankly, I'm
delighted to have the program operating beside XY; witness the many
struggles here recently to get it TAMEd.

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