Dear XyWrite List aficionados,
Here's one for Carl, and possibly Edward. I like to use the em dash rather than the "--" available in plain text in XyWrite. As such, years ago I programmed a key combo in my kbd file like this:
12=[260] (in the CTRL table)
where the [260] is actually the code in XY for the em dash (not accurately reproducible here). This has worked for years; in a document I press ctrl and hyphen and there that code would be, and would print out as an em dash.
Since switching to the Ed-Distro (thanks to Bill Troop for this excellent naming; it could also be EMDistro or the like), when I press ctrl/hyphen the file disappears, without a warning to save, and the cursor sits on the command line, as if nothing has happened at all. I lost a whole file this way. I've also checked the MacOS keyboard preference to make sure that combination doesn't do anything system wide: it doesn't. Since then, I've tried to use a substitution in my (loaded via
startup.int) spl (spelling) file like this:
--(then space)[260]
with that [260] in code form that I copied over from another file that had it, not as plain text. Saved the spl file, reloaded, or quit XY and went back in, none of which had any effect at all. My guess is that the substitution is not equipped to handle it, or that I should have formatted the substitution differently. Ideas welcome . . .
Thanks to all,
FW