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RE: Undocumented keyboard functions NB 3.0- Use of NB 8.0



Dick and friends,

 

I love to hear people say nice things about Nota Bene! Thanks! Quite a few people have told us that version 8 is much more user-friendly than earlier versions. With regard to documentation, we do have 600 pages of printable documentation in NB format and PDF format. And the same material is also available in HLP (on screen) format.

 

Dick’s posting comes two days after our spring sale ended. But if any of you are interested in purchasing Scholar’s Workstation (or Lingua Workstation which adds support for Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, etc.) at a discounted price, we can offer two discounts. First you are always entitled to our XyWrite discount which is the same as our student price (normally $249 for Scholar’s Workstation). Secondly, if you can place your order by the end of next week, we will extend our sale prices for you ($199 for Scholar’s Workstation). Just go to the following page, click through to the order form and you will see the price for “Upgrades from Nota Bene DOS or XyWrite.”

 

  http://www.notabene.com/spring_sale.html

 

There is no link this page from our main web page, so you need to go to it directly. This page will be active until July 17.

 

Best to all,

 

Anne

 

 

 

Anne Putnam

Nota Bene

www.notabene.com

800-462-6733

718-382-1500

 

 

 

From: dick.giering@xxxxxxxx [mailto:dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:41 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx; XyList
Cc: Anne Putnam; Kari Eveli
Subject: Re: Undocumented keyboard functions NB 3.0- Use of NB 8.0

 

A few years ago, my version (4.?) of XY lost one or mare of the DLLs that are needed for operating.  The install disks are corrupted.  I moved to NB and have not been sorry.  I amended the printer interface so the function keys map as XY so I did not hav to re-learn the new layout.
The min problem is termonology and lack of HARDCOPY documentation (All NB documentation is via help and other non-hardcopy features)   An example of termonology difference is XY has SAVEGET while in NB the same thing is the LIBRARY.
  I have found NB SWS to be MOST USEFUL but only in the later versions.
Dick Giering

 

-------------- Original message from "Kari Eveli" : --------------

Some basic and very important features of NB 3.0 were left undocumented and
> unused in the N.B. 3.0 release, namely
>
> DB keyboard function = move to beginning of define
> DE keyboard function = move to end of define
>
> as well as va$df for querying define status, where
> 0 = no define
> 1 = define open
> 2 = define closed
>
> These are fundamental for writing basic text editing programs.
> Another undocumented (at least in the Customization and Programming Guide)
> keyboard function is
> HF = help function, run a program located in the help file, e.g.
> hf,F = run the menu-based search program (in keyboard file).
> The intricacies of N.B. 3.0 help system were not revealed. In fact, the help system of N.B. 3.0 is totally customizable and can be harnessed to do many
> useful things.
> There may be other undocumented features I have not discovered as yet. I have tried newer versions of N.B. and XyWrite, but N.B. 3.0 is still best for me. Are
> there other N.B. 3.0 users among this list's subscribers?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
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