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From: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone)
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Subject: Re: World's Best Word Processor?
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Date: 13 May 89 01:52:21 GMT
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You're right, XYwrite has most of the features you listed.  But the
product that's especially interesting to academics is NotaBene, a
hybrid of XYwrite and FYI's text database.  NotaBene retains all the
features of XYwrite but gives you access to a powerful text search &
retrieval system, which can be set up to search on keywords or strings.

The two are not totally integrated yet; text is displayed in the database 
in "expanded mode" (analogous to WordStar 3.0's way of displaying
^Sunderlined^S text), but the NotaBenitos assure me the next version
will take care of this.  They also stress that the next version will be
less intimidating than the present one (which comes with a 1000+ page
manual).

Contact Dragonfly Software, 285 W. Broadway - Suite 500, NYC 10013-2204.
Phone 212-334-0445.