Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 92 12:06:00 PDT
From:         William Bodiford <IBFBWMB@UCLAMVS>
Subject:      Re: Thesaurus in 4.0/lingua; AU in 4.0/lingua
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Regarding Itamars question, "Has anybody received the right thesaurus,
i.e., one where the item on which the cursor stands does not become
invisible?"   --  I have never experienced that problem.  I use a somewhat
buggy no-name XT-clone (built in someone's garage) with HGC+ and NB 3.1
w/SLS.  I remember that when I first received NB 3.0 and SLS I was
rather upset to lose the on-screen desplay of italic.  Worse, the words
following <MDRV> /or <MD55>/ had a line running right through the middle
of the letters.  I complained to DF and promptly received a new version of
NBMASTER.COM and MODES.SET.  Ever since the on-screen display of italic
has consisted of words with both underlining and above-lineing (so that they
appear almost in a box).  -- Now as for the thesaurus, the word on which the
cursor appears is displayed in reverse video (i.e., black letters in a
white background).  I do not know how any of this is accomplished.  Of course,
if I switch back to normal NB-Mode, the screen displays italic letters for
both words marked <MDRV> in the text and the word within the thesaurus on
which the cursor stands.  I think that the original NBMASTER.COM upgrade
was dated 9-02-88 and was 8499 bytes.  The upgrade to NB 3.1 changed it, but
the video modes still appear as described above.
--William Bodiford (ibfbwmb@uclamvs)

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> Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 92 13:23:40 IST
> Reply-To:     Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
> Sender:       Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
> From:         "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM.BITN
ET>
> Subject:      Thesaurus in 4.0/lingua; AU in 4.0/lingua
> To:           "Mark J. Pisaro" <IABOSPI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>,
>               William Bodiford <IBFBWMB@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>,
>               Mark Infusino <IJA4MHI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>,
>               "SHIRLEY ARORA ILX3ARO@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU" <ILX3ARO@MVS.OAC.UCLA.E
DU>
>
> (1) The problem with the thesaurus reported a few days ago
> on this list by Rina Drory (referring to version 3.0 & 3.1)
> repeats in 4.0/lingua. Has anybody received "the right thesaurus",
> i.e., one where the item on which the cursor stands does not
> become invisible?
>
> (2) If you work with 'automatic uppercase on' (AU) in Hebrew,
> you get the wrong letters; obviously, NB capitalizes these
> letters, which is nice for the accented counterparts, but
> desastrous for Hebrew (you get a Mem when you type He, Shin
> when you type Pe, Tav when you type Bet, etc.). I know that
> many English speaking users are so used to using the Shift
> key that they do not bother about AU; but for me AU has been
> a great help, since the idea of a capital letter is still
> not in my blood, in spite of the many years I've been using
> Roman alphabet languages. If anybody is on speaking terms
> with NBI, could this be reported as a bug? [AU should
> simply become inoperative in Hebrew mode].
>
> Itamar E-Z
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