re `power' v wp xyW

[OkAnnie@xxxxxxxx]

Hi, David. Long time since we last crossed paths. Queens must be
keeping you busy.

:   [Y]ou might be surprised how many journalists who know
:   what they're doing and do have a choice still insist
:   on XyWrite. [ ... N]ot everyone just buys it by rote.

Well, being of the species myself and having spent my life since
birth, on duty and off, with others so afflicted, not much
surprises me. But I *would* be surprised if you know any
journalist who didn't first encounter xyWrite because his/her
publisher provided it or through a friend whose publisher did.
Anyone who uses it long is apt to be impatient with other word
processors' rigidity and slow response, whatever xyWrite's flaws.
Some writers might even buy it, but XyQuest acknowledged how few
when it offered pirates amnesty. If ever an app couldn't be
bought by rote, xyWrite is it.
The only Manhattan store where I ever saw it was back when Olden
Camera had a retail computer department. That was because (I
learned by asking) one salesman was married to an enthusiast--a
typesetter.

Anent the xpl companion discussion: Is the Times using Pipeline
for 'net access? I notice references to it in both your and Allan
Siegal's headers.
The current software is written from the ground up with VBL--the
better to make quick fixes for bugs and popular user requests,
goes the party line.
   --annie

========================== annie fisher  nyc