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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 92 23:57:16 EST
From:         dave reimer f <dreimer4@MACH1.WLU.CA>
Subject:      TACT
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              928:11 pm

Luuk Houwen noted:
>
> Another bit of news for Tact enthusiasts, a friend just back from a conference
> on Chaucer and computing in Canada attended a demonstration of version 2,
> which is up and running although not quite ready for distribution yet. Tact,
> by the way, is an excellent full-text retrieval packages, developed at the
> University of Toronto, and absolutely free (it is a lot like WordCruncher, but
> much more versatile).
>
Since there are a few (I think) TACT fans on the list, maybe I could
say a bit more. (I was just at a humanities computing wing-ding with
Ian Lancashire whose office has direct oversight of TACT.) I think the
software is *pretty* well ready for release -- a good working beta has
been around for almost a year. The problem, as I understand it, was
distribution. (Why not just make it available from FTP sites?? Beats
me!) Anyway, it turns out the MLA is taking over TACT distribution
which will remain shareware (or some kind of public domain ware),
except you have to plop down $30 for the manual. And, much like
earlier versions of NB, if you didn't have the manual, you might as
well forget it.

David.
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David J. Reimer, Religion & Culture                  Fax: (519) 886-9351
Wilfrid Laurier University                   Phone: (519) 884-1970 x2680
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3C5             Internet: dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:56:00 GMT
From:         JAE2@VAXB.YORK.AC.UK
Subject:      RE: turning off hyphens
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I've always used 'length of shortest word that can be hyphenated' and made it
impossibly long!  (With every wp program I've ever used, as a fail-safe.)  It
works.
However I also changed nbcustom.set to hy=0

jae2@uk.ac.york (Judy Evans)
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From:         "Itamar Even-Zohar,
              Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
Subject:      More asbout customizing keyboards
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I would like to draw your attention to Teun van Dijk's
pgm for customizing NB 4.0 keyboards, or perhaps rather:
customizing your NB 4.0 personal keyboard to have most
of the features you had in your 3.0/3.1 keyboard. It's
called FINDKEYS.RUN, and is embedded in NB-LNG02.ZIP.

There is also a much older pgm, written by Tyson for XyWrite,
and adapted by me, for quick insertion of chains of commands
to keyboards (it translates actual operation to keyboard code;
best when you don't know or don't remember the codes). It's
called KEYBREC.RN, and can be found in NB-2UT01.ZIP.

Itamar E-Z
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From:         M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
Subject:      NB4: (a) Running footers; (b) print modes
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I've been allowed to play with NB4 over the last few days, and must in
due course give it back. I have found the following - minor, compared
to what some others have encountered - but I'd still like to hear if
there is an answer.

Using an Epson dot matrix printer, I cannot get the running footer at
the end of the page where it should be. I solved the problem of the
text creeping down the first page by inserting TP=0 in nbcustom.set;
but no setting of FF and BT produces a properly laid out page. When I
examined the the rf delta created with the menu, I found that the
blank line I had asked to be between the page number and the text was
inserted BELOW the page number anyway.

There are thus two problems running footer-wise which I have
encountered.

I don't like the way in which MD IT is geared to the display of
labels. It's a small point, but it touches on something in which my
prejudices are confirmed. NB confronts high wysiwyg factors in other
systems; and as someone who has no need for graphics a pure text-based
system is jes' fine. But then I want my underlined text to look
underlined, my bold etc etc etc; I have no problems with not seeing
Gothic or Times Roman or whatever on the screen - those are printing
problems. So I insist in using mono mode to get underlining, and now
italics. I like this aspect of NB4. After all, paper is generally
printed in black on white, so I see no point in getting the screen all
alit like a Christmas tree. But I am disappointed that labels now
vanish into the general text when I want them to go on standing out
sharply. I had not realised that in NB3 they were tied immovably to
italics.

My preoccupation with italics is due to their importance in legal
writing, and I also need superscript. I was hoping that - while not
giving me 100% wysiwyg, which is no problem - at least the on screen
representations of these modes would be better.

I also could not find a setting for underlined bold.

I also have difficulty in making changes to defaults stick. This has
featured frequently lately - is there a definitive answer??
 ---------------
Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 92 15:25:06 EST
From:         Dorothy Day <DAY@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: dot matrix Printers

The Toshiba 321SL is a fine machine with many good features, and I've
been loyal to the company that pioneered 24-pin dot-matrix printing.
(Many early Chinese and other special-print-needs packages wrote drivers
for this difficult printer because it was the best there was.) When laser
printers were simply unthinkable for individual users, 24-pin 300-dpi
printing produced astonishingly good-looking quality, next to 9-pin
output.

However, the most glaring and enduring fault of the entire Toshiba
1340-321-351 series is it poor handling of paper advancing (and
retracting--the "superscript" font of the 321SL was not so much a gift
to customers as a way to avoid having to move the platen forwards
and back, with miserable realignment in the current row of text). In
any kind of graphics printing, one must put up with the occasional
white stripe across the page where the platen advanced too far.
Single-pass printing of a row of characters avoids this, but if two
passes (with any vertical offset) are required, one can expect some
unfortunate results now and then.

After glowing early reviews, the Toshiba 321/351s began receiving very
poor reviews and have by now mostly ceased production. Small portables
and laser printers are their main line.

Personally, I'm waiting for my husband's wonderful Alps Allegro 500 to
return from the shop (where it's languished since February, more or
less...) The Allegro has perfect paper handling (no platen; the paper
moves flat through the bottom of the printer and the head strikes
*down* onto it); it's just the logic board that goes berserk...

Dorothy Day, Indiana University
Bitnet: DAY@IUBACS
Internet: day@ucs.indiana.edu
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 92 18:20:10 IST
From:         PARKINSN@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA
Subject:      some troubles resolved
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Gee, I guess a posting to this list is an incantation for NBI to call.
I talked to Rebecca (!) about my problems and got some resolved.

Strangely, I was able to load the dictionary "high" and get ibid as well.
This always happens in front of technical help people.  Rebecca said
some people had had problems with calling Ibid, not because of the
dictionary, but because of "append" in their autoexec.bat.  But I don't
have that.  Anyway, things seem to work now.

The latest word is that auto-replace words and phrases are now limited
to 39 letters because of some "lingua feature."  I know there was
speculation about this earlier.  Anything longer just hangs the system.
Rebecca checked this out with a programmer while on the line.

She also admitted to some problems the the "paging" of multiple files
in and out of memory, and the programmers are working on that as well.
For me, this is less of a problem if I can load the dictionary high.

As for the define, "it's not a bug, it's a feature."  When defining a
line of bold text which ends in a carriage return by cursor, placing the
cursor on the carriage return and locking in the define _no longer_
captures the MDMN command link it used to (this has also been
appropriated by Lingua or Ibid or something).  So you can either
use scroll lock, and get the carriage return you probably don't want,
or copy the text and use the "md nm" command from the action line to
insert the proper code.  Or, copy from expanded.  I don't really like
these solutions, but that's the way it is.

As for dissappearing memory...it's a mystery.  Defined blocks? Paging?
RAM is an arcane world, a virtual plethora of brain twisters.

Anyway, I hope I've been clear about the problems and the answers.
Perhaps someone will find something here helpful.

Ted Parkinson
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
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From: juhatsan@polaris.utu.fi (Juha2 Tapani Santala)
Subject: Re: Windows's PIF, DesQView, Lingua
Organization: University of Turku, Computing Centre
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:36:36

Dear Friends,

I have used NB 4.0 Lingua few weeks with satisfaction. But I haven't managed
to run NB under Windows 386-mode. Have You any suggestions to make it work?
Also I have played with NB under DesQView, but usually I get greek and hebrew
characters on my finnish Bible program. How can get the fix on that?

With thanks

Juha Santala
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Theology
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 92 11:13:18 -0500
From:         "Marvyn R. Harris" <mrh3b@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject:      VGA sans serif font/NBLingua
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A reader of the list has put me onto a VGA utility that installs
a very readable sans serif screen font -- though the lower case
"m" is not entirely to my liking. An outfit by the name of
"clySmic software" distributes it as freeware, and it can be
found on SIMTEL20 in the directory VGA under the name
VFONT436.ARC.

What I would like to do is to yank the NB4 ASCII character set
out of NB.FNT and replace it with a "clySmic software" font. I
have no qualms about doing that for my personal use since the
copyright holders say nothing about appropriating their fonts for
uses other than those intended by them. The copyright notice by
clySmic software is:

----------------------------------------------------------------
VFONT is copyrighted by clySmic software, and is released as
"Freeware". You may copy the program and distribute it without
charge.  You may not sell or otherwise charge for VFONT.
However, users' groups may charge a small fee (not to exceed $7)
for media and postage. This program is provided AS IS without any
warranty, expressed or implied, including but not limited to
fitness for a particular purpose.  So there.

clySmic software is not responsible for anything that may happen
when you use VFONT, including hardware damage, information loss,
or crossed-eyes from looking at Scrawl.

  Ralph B Smith Jr
  clySmic software
  P. O. Box 2271
  Empire State Plaza
  Albany, NY 12220
----------------------------------------------------------------

Is there a copyright notice by NBI explicitly forbidding the
modification of any component of NB4/NBLinga that I have missed
in the documentation that I received?

I assume that NBI would definitely object to the general
distribution (as for example in the SIMTEL20 directory Notabene)
of a modified version of their NB.FNT file. The problem, as I see
it, is that they would understandably not want non-owners of
NB4/NBLingua to have access to the 13 other fonts in NB.FNT, a
file which can be readily dissected into its component font files
with a binary editor. For the moment, I see no way that I could
make a modified NB.FNT readily available to others without
running afoul of NBI.

Any ideas?

Roy Harris - University of Virginia
mrh3b@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU, mrh3b@Virginia.Bitnet
From: NASSH100@SIVM.BITNET (Allan Needell)
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Subject: Smart-quotes and em-dashes
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:25:31 GMT
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From: Allan Needell

Yes, but with which font family?  Was it HPII internat fonts or a cartridge?

Allan Needell
National Air & Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560  (BITNET: NASSH100@SIVM)
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:22:40 EST
From:         "Darrell P. Hammer (Political Science)" <HAMMER@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: dot matrix Printers

I have also used the Toshiba 321 for NB3 and SLS, and encountered no
problems.

Darrell Hammer
Indiana University
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 92 17:08:08 IST
From:         PARKINSN@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA
Subject:      Re: Windows
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I'm not sure if it's the PIF file or not (I've stopped using Windows for
a while because it's too slow), but there _is_ an option for calling up
programs in either full or partial windows.  I got all my programs to call
up in windows, but there may be a difference between windows and non-windows
applications.  Also, some of the fonts you may choose for dos programs
do not operate smoothly in all cases.
Oh yeah, if it's not the PIF file, then its the file in program manager
that you tell how you want to _run_ the program.  Hope this helps.
Ted Parkinson
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 92 21:16:52 -0500
From:         r_melammed@FANDM.BITNET
Subject:      ASCII
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I know this is a basic- but I would greatly appreciate
a reply as soon as possible to anyone with the know-how
who is not at a conference:

How do I convert Lingua files to ASCII
I must do this by MOnday!!!

many thanks to any weekend users

Renee and Uri Melammed
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:22:25 -0500
From:         "Marvyn R. Harris" <mrh3b@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject:      VGA soft fonts and NB4
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I find the basic VGA font in NBLingua very readable and like it
very much. Presumably, since NBLingua cannot be run without NB4,
I assume that all persons owning it also own NB4. Is there any
legal reason that any of you can see why owners of both
NB4/NBLingua and NB3.0/NB3.1 should not be able to install the
NB4 font for use with NB3.x?

I find, at least for my Trident VGA card, that I can load the NB4
VGA font PRIOR to entering NB3.1 and that it sticks, so that I
have it after NB3.1 is activated.

I wish that I could do the same on booting up NB4 without
NBLingua, but have not found a way to do so. Has anyone found out
how to install a soft VGA font and get it to stick on activating
NB4?

Roy Harris - University of Virginia
mrh3b@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU, mrh3b@Virginia.Bitnet
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 92 03:22:19 IST
From:         GLDBRGJO@NYUACF.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Smart-quotes and em-dashes
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Allan,
It was from Lingua, I believe the Roman Font, I did not set an FF delta in the
file only a PT 12.  Sorry, let me try this again in English.
I was printing from Lingua.  I did not use an FF delta.  The print looks like
it must have been Roman which I think is one of Lingua's own fonts, unless it
uses whatever is on the printer.  I had PT set to 12.  I hope this is some
help.
Laser printing is new to me, and made a little more confusing by the fact that
I am printing to disk with DMP and then copying the file to PRN on the Network
at school to print.
Yechiel Goldberg
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Subject: Smart-quotes and em-dashes
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:30:40 GMT
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I seem to recall that a week ago or something like that someone asked how
real quotation marks and em-dashes print on an HPLJIII.
My experience yesterday on a IIISI was that they are beautiful, as was the
rest of my chapter.
Yechiel Goldberg
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From:         Michael Shalev <SHALEV@HUJIVMS.BITNET>
Subject:      search2
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//
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD   *
Search Hypertext in PACS-L
Print all of 5190 4938 4439 4421 4070 4068 3937 3931 3018 2833 2405 920 541
/*
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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 92 13:25:00 IST
From:         Odeda Zlotnick <KPUOZ@HUJIVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: NBI Prices, revised
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Academic pricing never existed in Israel, company policy or no company policy.
                                                           Odeda.
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:51:55 -0500
From:         "B. FROHMANN" <frohmann@UWOVAX.UWO.CA>
Subject:      Mailmerge problems
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Has anyone encountered problems accessing the a mailmerge list file when
trying to create a form/template file?  Just after specifying the .mml file
using the menu, I get a message that the .mml file can't be found, yet
there it is, sitting in the \nb4\merge subdirectory!  It can be edited, but
it can't be accessed when trying to create a form/template.  Any suggestions?
Bernd Frohmann
School of Library and Information Science
Elborn College
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6G 1H1
(519) 679-2111 EX. 8510
FROHMANN@UWOVAX.UWO.CA
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From:         Luuk Houwen <houwen@FREYA.LET.RUG.NL>
Subject:      Windows
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Sorry about my rather cryptic reply which was intended for Paul caron only but
ended up on the net. It was all about some Windows applications that would not
stay on the desktop where I put them while maintaining the size I gave them
(playing God on my own desktop). Paul suggested a utility called sizer110 on
Simtel and I am happy to say it works well . . . finally I am in control again
(well, almost, I still cannot make WP for Windows start up in a small Window).
I do find it astonishing that products made by Microsoft themselves display
this disturbing behaviour (Word, Excel).

Some slightly disturbing news I just read on medtextl: WP is apparently
working on an SGML parser. If anyone should be working on it it should be
NotaBene. Does anyone know if they are?

Another bit of news for Tact enthusiasts, a friend just back from a conference
on Chaucer and computing in Canada attended a demonstration of version 2,
which is up and running although not quite ready for distribution yet. Tact,
by the way, is an excellent full-text retrieval packages, developed at the
University of Toronto, and absolutely free (it is a lot like WordCruncher, but
much more versatile).


Luuk Houwen
State University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
e-mail houwen@let.rug.nl
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From:         Paul Chandler <U251019@HNYKUN11.BITNET>
Subject:      NotaBene prices Europe
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This is the NB pricelist from Dragonfly Europe in Germany (all prices
are in Dutch gulders; 1 gulder = approx. 58 cents US)

NB 4.0                 1,089
NB Lingua                729
NB Orbis 1.0             489
NB Ibid. 1.1             489
NB Ibid. Plus            129

NB+Ibid.               1,499
NB+Orbis               1,499
NB+Lingua              1,699
NB+Ibid+Orbis          1,949
NB+Ibid.+Lingua        2,179
NB+Orbis+Lingua        2,179
NB Omni (all of above) 2,629

Upgrades:
NB 3.x to 4.0            319
NB+Orbis+Lingua          549

I haven't seen any reference to academic discounts for individual
users, though network and classroom licences are on offer (prices
on request). I'm glad I was a subscriber.

Paul Chandler
Titus Brandsma Instituut, Nijmegen
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I just tried to create a form/template file using a short, 2 entry file,
with the same result as Bernd.  The program can't find it.  A bug?  Has
anyone managed to get through to NBI with this one?

--Ken Salzberg
ksalzber@hamline.edu
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 92 15:51:00 +0200
From:         Michael Shalev <SHALEV@HUJIVMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Olivetti Ink Jet and Shapirit
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I have been looking into this printer for myself.
I was told that the agents in Israel are Electis in Ramat Gan,
Tel. 03-751-8121, ask for Eliezer in the Service Dept. They will
help you modiy, or if necessary write a driver. Apparently the Olivetti
is Deskjet-compatible, but uses different control codes to call
its fonts (which are internal, not in a cartridge).
I'd appreciate any information about this printer's consumption of ink.
If it's as bad as the HP Deskjet, then I am definitely not going
to buy one...
...Michael
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 92 23:16:00 CST
From:         LAVENDA@MSUS1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: OS/2
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Paul Bodin, who is, I believe, temporarily off the list to go to a professional
meeting, has been using OS/2 with what appears to be great satisfaction. He
seems to prefer it to both Windows and Desqview, in part because of its
stability.

Robert Lavenda                     lavenda@msus1
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