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[edit] The present tense

I've switched this to the present tense, as XyWrite still has a fair number of users. (I'm one, and yes, I say it's faster than MS Word and OOo because I've compared them.)

I've also fixed the misstatement that Xy file format is ASCII. Wrongo. There are alternative ways of phrasing "IBM437", but "ASCII" is surely the most misleading among them. Hoary 06:11, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm now no longer a user of XyWrite, mostly because of its inability to handle Unicode but also because of the irritations involved in running a DOS or Windows program under a superior OS. However, I stand by the statement that "XyWrite still has a fair number of users": see the activity here and the discussion here. --Hoary 05:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

I assumed the NPOV issues with this article were fairly obvious. Phrases like "several great virtues" and "polished to near-perfection" show a clear lack of neutrality, unless you can find a source for someone knowledgeable on the subject saying that. The article overall is pretty good but weasel phrases like that need to be weeded out. Soo 13:19, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Well said. I'd start by pointing to an article by Edward Mendelson published in the Yale Review -- but oh dear, most of the links in this page are dead. So rewriting may take a while. In the meantime.... Hoary 13:55, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

I had forgotten that Signature was released - but now it vaguely comes back to me. What a mess it was. Menus for inserting footnotes, no menus for deleting footnotes. A beginner could add things but only experts could remove the things that the beginner added... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 160.39.18.104 (talk) 18:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] How WYSIWYG woz Xy4?

There seems to be an argument between

Quasi-WYSIWYG editing which ensures that the line breaks in documents matches those of the printed version, although all text appears in the same generic font and the same point size and graphic elements are represented only by empty outlines.

and

Version 4 had full WYSIWYG graphical editing capabilities including on-screen display of bitmaps.

I can't speak about bitmaps, but as for text the former accords a lot better with my own hazy memories of Xy4DOS. Could the one writer have Xy4DOS in mind and the other Xy4Win? -- Hoary 04:18, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open source alternative?

Is there an open source alternative?