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From:         GLDBRGJO@NYUACF.BITNET
Subject:      Re: dot matrix Printers
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For Ken Salzberg,
I have a Panasonic KX-P1124 24 pin printer which provides quite nice output
from NB, though of course it is no competition for the HPIIISIs on the
network at NYU.  This printer now exists as the KX-P1123 or 1124i depending
what bells and whistles you want is very reasonably priced.  As dot matrix
printers go this is an excellent choice and I have never experienced a problem
with NB SLS or Lingua.  You do need to buy the additional 32k memory chip
to take advantage of Lingua fonts, however. (If you decide to buy the printer
let me know and I'll tell you where to get what chip to get, don't pay
Panasonic's ridiculous $60 some-odd price for this $10 part.

Yechiel Goldberg
gldbrg@acfcluster.nyu.edu
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 92 22:31:00 CST
From:         LAVENDA@MSUS1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: loading personal.spl
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Allan,

I used the same syntax that I had used in 3.1 in the STARTUP.INT file in

the new NBSTART.INT file--load +c:/nb4/spell/personal.spl. As soon as I
activate the on-line speller, the personal dictionary works fine.

Hope this helps,
Rob Lavenda lavenda@msus1
From: RPEREZ@WAYNEST1.BITNET (Reinaldo Perez)
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Date: 12 Nov 92 18:28:57 GMT
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              11 Nov 92 12:44:52 GMT from <M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK>

Unfortunately I cannot provide any substantive help to Mervyn Bennun.  All I ca
n add is that I have the exact same problem as he describes.  It does not happe
n all the time.  I don't use the UK dictionary, of course.  The PERSONAL.SPL is
 loaded automatically whenever I enter NB.  I' m hoping that it will all go awa
y once I can spare the time to load my 4.0 which arrived all too long ago.

Reinaldo Perez
Wayne State Univ, Detroit
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From: pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Paul J. Bodin)
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Subject: Re: ASCII and NB4
Date: 11 Nov 92 03:48:17 GMT
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Pieter de Villiers writes:

> When I type ascii-letters in Lingua, installed on my IBM L40SX laptop, using
> shift-alt plus a triple combination on the numerical keypad, I am given an
> empty box. To see what mystery is hidden in that box, I have to store and
> recall. Only then can I discover whether I was fallible and made a mistake
> when I typed that number. Is there an easier way of seeing the product at
> once? It worked (amemptoos) in SLS and I believe Lingua, which otherwise is
> mostly sheer delight, must be merely frivolous on this one. I do not want to
> use the other longer ways of typing mostly French and German characters.

The "empty box" characters simply mean that the font pool you are
using doesn't have that particular character available.  To show it on
screen hit Ctrl+F and select a more appropriate font pool.  It may
take a bit of trial and error to discover the particular pool that
contains the most of the characters you need for your work, but you
should be able to work something out.

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
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From:         "Sarah L. Higley" <slhi@TROI.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Shift-F7
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How then DO we open deltas?  Sarah
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Date:         Fri, 6 Nov 92 20:14:42 IST
From:         JEARLS@CSBSJU.EDU
Subject: Re: Toshiba 321 driver
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For Ken Salzberg--
I was experiencing similar difficulties with my NEC5200.  I called up the
NBCUSTOM.SET and went down to DF tp=6 and changed it to tp=0.  My printer
now starts obediently on the first line.  Surely I am not understanding the
problem, but isn't it a nice solution?
J. P. EARLS / ST.JOHN'S UNIV. / COLLEGEVILLE, MN / 56321 / JEARLS@CSBSJU.EDU
From: DICK@SIENA.BITNET (Michael Dick)
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Subject: Gateway and Overflow
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:50:26 GMT
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I have two Gateways (a 386 at home and a 486 at work). In general I'm very
contented with them, but I wonder if my overflow problems on large files (180
k) could be hardware related. I have no resident programs or bells and
whistles, but I seem to get problems printing or saving these large files; I
have diagnosed the problem (self diagnosis) as an overflow problem and wonder
if it's a NB Gateway clash. So has anybody had any strange experience with the
two?
        Michael Dick
        DICK@SIENA
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Date:         Fri, 6 Nov 92 21:44:15 DST
From:         "Nicolai Winther-Nielsen" <INNWN@VM2.UNI-C.DK>
Subject:      graphics included
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Re Graphics (Quick Ref. p.134):
Both in SLS and now in Lingua I have problems with including graphics. The imag
e was produced in Windows paintbrush file.bmp which was then specified after th
e IN-command. Even when no NB text follows the program freezes and I get the me
ssage Too long lines - although the image is not of full page width.
Any succesfull experiences?
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From: RBW@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU
Subject: Table of Contents and Ragged Right Edge
Organization: Rice University  
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:57:16 GMT

I recently discovered this group, and was delighted to find others who use
NB.  I am a couple of weeks away from finishing a final draft of my PhD
dissertation.  This week I printed out my first draft of the complete
document, including lists of figures and tables, and table of contents.
NB collected everything beautifully (except where I made a couple of
mistakes), IBID did the list of cited references like a dream, and I am
repaid for my hours of work in learning to use the tools.  But...
when the able of contents and other lists are printed out, there is
a ragged right edge. The LD function does not appear to work correctly.
     I am using NB 3.1, with an HP laserjet iii.  I have the 25-in-one
soft fonts, and edited the hp2-b.prn file to change the setup strings
so that Times-Roman from the B font-cartridge is called properly.  I
install the fonts into the printer at boot-up, so they are there.  All
the text prints beautifully.  But there is something wrong when the
program tries to figure out how many periods or spaces to insert to put
page numbers at the right margin.  Any ideas?  I am completely at a loss,
and have wasted an incredible amount of time reading the manual and the
customization guide.
     I'd be grateful for any help.
Rosine W. Hall
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Rice University
rbw@rice.edu or
rosine@whittaker.rice.edu
From: harrisr@VAX.OX.AC.UK
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Subject: Polish characters
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:18:10 GMT
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Via:        UK.AC.OX.MR; 13 NOV 92 18:23:21 GMT

Using SLS, I cannot print out special Polish characters --for example, a "Z"
with an "l" with a slash through it.  I've tried it on two different printers
(Toshiba 311 and Epson LQ510), both of which print other languages just fine.
The Polish is loaded using language subset 3b, and the characters _do_ appear
on screen, but won't print.  Can anybody help?
-Robert Harris, Oxford
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Date:         Sun, 8 Nov 92 15:34:00 EST
From:         "Howell, Joel" <JOEL.HOWELL@MED.UMICH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: famous again
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The New York Times Magazine section today refers to Nota Bene as
the "favorite word processor for academics."  [!]

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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 92 10:36:22 IST
From:         "Itamar Even-Zohar,
              Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Ibid and accents
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              12 Nov 92 17:45:41 EST from <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>

I store the DAT files only in compressed mode. If I don't,
then when I switch to NB 3.1 (I still work in 3.1; 4.0/Lingua
is still a toy for me), different characters are displayed
rather than the original accented ones.

In Lingua, I have no difficulty in searching the accented characters.

However, I have NOT tested non-ASCII character search (such as
characters with hachek, macron, underdot, ogoniok, etc.).

If you have completely switched (moved) to NB 4.0, perhaps
compression is no longer necessary.

Itamar E-Z


PS. Unfortunately, when you EXPORT from Lingua, 3-byte
characters (sequences) are NOT converted to some refular
ASCII characters. If you wish to export a DAT file (for
non-NB users, for instance), you will have to manually
convert those characters.

More unfortunately, I don't know if there is a possibility
to have a substitution table with several characters converted
to a single character (the regular subst tables are of the
opposite type), which could have enabled a smooth convertion.
(For example, ASCII 255 ASCII x ASCII y=e acute.)
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From: WMEEKS@YALEVM.BITNET (Wayne A. Meeks)
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Subject: bugs, gremlins, and ibid problems
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:11:29 GMT
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More and more things are working properly in NB4+Lingua+Ibid for me--the odd
thing is that some things seem to have cured themselves without my ever
finding out why they were going wrong.  The thing seems to have a mind of its
own.  (Though actually reading, very carefully, the documentation we _did_ get
certainly helped; amazing how much information has been squeezed into that
microscopic quick reference guide.  My optometrist is going to love NBI.)

However, there are still some things that seem wrong and others just erratic.
1) Though Lingua characters work fine in ordinary text and in printing, they
appear as blanks in help screens and menus.  E.g., the F6-F1 menu of the
diacritical mnemonics is a table of little blank rectangles for me.  (I have
an EGA card and a mono monitor.)
2)Ibid cannot look up authors or titles with diacriticals, e.g. an umlaut.  I
have lots of those, and there was no problem in 3.1.  When called up by
finding the ref. number, the files appear to be normal.
3)Like Paul Chandler, I discover that a small black hole somewhere seems
occasionally (so far haven't discovered the regularities) absorbs a large
chunk of memory.  It does NOT show up on func me.
4) The multiple copies option on CTRL+Print Screen doesn't work.  When
invoked, it prints one copy, then declares "Done Printing."  It means, "for
the night, buster," and only a hot boot will enable it to print anything else.

These are the most consistent of the peculiarities I've noticed.  Are they
unique to my machine or files, or have I mucked something up (again)?  Or has
anyone else discovered anything similar?

Wayne A. Meeks, Dept of Relig Studies, Yale Univ
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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 92 11:12:50 MST
From:         arippin@ACS.UCALGARY.CA
Subject:      Context mode
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Has anybody seen how to change the default setting for typing in
Context Mode (Control =) in NB 4/Lingua?

Thanks.

***************
Andrew Rippin
Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:06:50 EST
From:         Pieter de Villiers <DIPD@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU>
Subject:      ASCII and NB4
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When I type ascii-letters in Lingua, installed on my IBM L40SX laptop, using
shift-alt plus a triple combination on the numerical keypad, I am given an
empty box. To see what mystery is hidden in that box, I have to store and
recall. Only then can I discover whether I was fallible and made a mistake
when I typed that number. Is there an easier way of seeing the product at
once? It worked (amemptoos) in SLS and I believe Lingua, which otherwise is
mostly sheer delight, must be merely frivolous on this one. I do not want to
use the other longer ways of typing mostly French and German characters.
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Date:         Fri, 6 Nov 92 16:08:42 EST
From:         Joel Lidov <JBLQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Subject: ORBIS: error opening...
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I reported earlier that ORBIS wouldn't open a databasis in the session
after I created it, but gave the "error opening file:  .DAT" message.
I tried Peter Binkley's suggestion of reducing the name of my database,
but to no avail (I used 5 characters).  Any other suggestions welcome.

Joel Lidov
Queens College CUNY
Bitnet JBLQC@CUNYVM
Internet  JBLQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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Date:         Sun, 8 Nov 92 18:35:03 EST
From:         Joel Lidov <JBLQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Orbis
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On Sat, 7 Nov 92 06:14:43 EST Tom Schlesinger said:
>   Ever since someone suggested trying shorter textbase names, I've been just
>about 100% successful in building Orbis TB's regardless of what the default
>directory at starting point.

For the record, how many letters is the longest name you are using?

Joel Lidov
Queens College CUNY
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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 92 13:48:00 JST
From:         "M.C. WRIGHT" <WRIGHT@JPNCUN10.BITNET>
Subject:      What about IBID prices?
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Many thanks to Robert Braham for the current price list.

I didn't see IBID on the list though.  How much for this little gem,
and is the new version out yet?  If not, is it worth popping for the old
when on buys, or upgrades to NB4?

Thanks again for the info.  (All of us who have been put on HOLD from
10,000 miles away appreciate it!)
                                  Mark Wright
                                  Nagoya, Japan
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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 92 00:07:50 DST
From:         "Nicolai Winther-Nielsen" <INNWN@VM2.UNI-C.DK>
Subject:      Re: Break XPL-program
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Odeda:
Unfortunately the ESC-key alone will not healp me to end an XPL-program that ju
st continues some search and delete function. It is certainly not aofiscated pr
ogram, but it does not help with all the small tricks if you can get out of the
m without leaving NB altogether.
So, in NB3 I could get out by some CTRL+SCRLL LOCK meassure, but in NB4 no key
combination I have tried will work -- only SHIFT+PAUSE BREAK, but that just sto
ps the program until another key is hit. So, still: any recommendations?
Nicolai
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From:         Michael Obuchowski <MICHALO@NEWSCHOOL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: WPCitation: Ibid competition
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Randall Wight writes:
>
> I've used WPCitation.  It is cumbersome, clumsy, and driven via multiple
> macros.  No comparison exists between Ibid and WPC.
>
I have used it, too.  It is clumsy.  Some of the features mentioned
in the manual did not exist (about a year ago).  However, there is a
new version out. I haven't seen it yet, but it is using the same
"multiple macros" approach.
                                         Michael



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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:47:46 GMT
From:         "Juan J. Alarcon-Sainz" <JAZZ@EMDUCM11.BITNET>
Subject:      help with deskjet
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Please, I need some help with my HP deskjet 500 printer. I try to use it
with LINGUA, and everything works O.K. but the hebrew YOD and WAW, that
appear mounted to the next letter. Do you have a solution for this big
problem or do I have to talk to NBI?

This is the second time I am asking this same question. None of you has
this problem?

Thank you.
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From:         DIECKER@UNMB.BITNET
Subject:      CTRL+ALT+ESC (for Sarah Higley)
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Sarah,

I use a grey-scale monitor at home and when doing the Ctrl+Alt+Esc routine
there, I see no change on screen either, but it works anyway. An odd thing
happens on the way back, however. I have to do the whole process twice, i e,
after pressing Ctrl+Esc to restore, not everything gets restored. So I have
to press Ctrl+Alt+Esc again, then Ctrl+Esc again, and everything's okay.

It's like the program want to know that you really mean it.

Jimmy C Diecker
Latin American Institute
University of New Mexico-Albuquerque
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Subject: Re: Lingua brackets and footnotes
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:11:00 GMT
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Itamar:
You inform us that LA4 must be insert in each footnote to make it print
as Hebrew.  Does this mean that language cannot be sent in the footnote
style delta (I mean SET, not SENT).
Tim Moore
Hong Kong
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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 92 11:29:34 -0600
From:         Kenneth Salzberg <ksalzber@HAMLINE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Desqview setup and NB4
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Gary:
	Calling the DV menu causes the nb color's to change, and the font
in the dv menu to be the Ascii+italics+scripts font on my machine, since
it's not in plain vanilla ASCII anymore.  This is to be expected, since
DV will be affected by the vga mode in which it finds itself.  I avoid
the problem by turning off nb's mode (Ctrl+Alt+Esc) before invoking DB's
menu.  All is then as it should be, and when I return to NB, Ctrl+Esc
returns the font's and color scheme in NB as I left it.
	None of this is necessary on the office herc mono, plane ascii
nb4.  On that machine, as I mentioned in any earlier post, nb4's new
system is an improvement as I can call the dv menu from within nb (not
having a mouse at the office).

--Ken Salzberg
ksalzber@hamline.edu
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:59:00 CDT
From:         "Francisco A. Scarano" <FRANCOSC@MACC.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      Permanent settings, part II
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>From: "Francisco A. Scarano" <FRANCOSC@MACC.WISC.EDU>

>What is the procedure to make the default settings "stick"?
>Every time I load NB 4 I have to go into the F1-Set- menus to
>have print, edit, and other settings adjusted.  I vaguely remember
>a discussion here (before I had received my copy of the program) about
>the need to be logged on to the \nb4 directory in order for the
>NBCUSTOM.SET file to be actually written over when making permanent
>changes in settings.  I have tried that and it doesn't work.  What
>might I be doing wrong?

Robert Barnham replies:
>>After you set your settings in f1-set, do you then hit "m" for
>>"make settings permanent"?  The business about being in the /nb4
>>program directory applies only to indexing in Orbis, as far as I know.

>>Some "pre-release" versions of NB4 had various functions unable
>>to be made permanent, despite what the prompt told you.

Actually, Robert, I DO hit "m" when prompted about the permanence of the
settings.  Upon calling the NBCUSTOM.SET file, I find that several
new lines have been added at the end, reflecting, perhaps, the changes
that I have wanted to make.  Still, when loading NB4 the next time
the settings are not recognized.

Because I had NB, Orbis, and Ibid Plus, I received the upgrade very
late, sometime in late September.  I think, therefore, that I must
have a rather debugged (ha!) version of NB4.

Any further ideas?

Thanks.
Francisco A. Scarano
FRANCOSC@WISCMACC - Bitnet
FRANCOSC@MACC.WISC.EDU - Internet
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