Re: A Real puzzler

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 "Around the block or two to turn Xy into Word?, not really.
 Have you tried the U2 feature sa/rtf? If you have not, try
 it. It takes less than a second to produce a RTF file. Now
 call up the RTF file in MSWord, and save it as a MSWord doc.
 Voila. No editing, no fuss, no mess.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Frank Brownlow wrote:

> Exactly. Shift-F8 is the better way into graphics view. I began using
> it continually after a publisher sent me specifications for a book that
> required fairly thorough-going typesetting. It worked perfectly, and
> the end-result was just about indistiguishable from the publisher's
> typesetters' work. This is why I like graphics view, why I still like
> Signature as well as Xy4, and why this computer's still-mysterious (to
> me) failure puts it off the desk for my purposes. I agree that, in my
> esperience too, Xywrite--in any of its forms--has no real competition
> for stability & capacity among word-processors when it comes to setting
> up a page of type. Editors, unfortunately, always want Word--but then
> they just want typescript, and that's easily supplied--though one has to
> go around a block or two to turn Xy into Word.
>
> Frank Brownlow
>