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- Message-ID: <NOTABENE%93012900432808@TAUNIVM>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 17:40:00 EST
- Sender: Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
- From: "Ada_W.Finifter" <FINIFTER@MSU.BITNET>
- Subject: Editors
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- In-Reply-To: The letter of Thursday, 28 January 1993 11:07am ET
- Lines: 22
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- Re Ken's point of requiring submissions to his journal to be in either NB,
- XYWrite, or ASCII...
-
- Maybe you can do this in the humanities but it would be ridiculous in
- political science. In the mid-eighties Nota Bene had a small but possibly
- even growing customer base in my discipline and in my own department as well.
- At one point the entire office staff and about 80% of the faculty used NB.
- Over the years because of dissatisfaction with support, high prices, lack of
- information and updates, etc. etc. people fell away one by one. The office
- staff had never really liked the program and there was no support at the
- university, so when a new person joined the staff they were very likely to
- know WP and not NB. As more and more faculty switched over to WP to be
- compatible with co-authors all over the country, etc. it then made no sense
- for the office staff to have to keep struggling with it so they switched over
- to WP as well. At the present time, there is only one other faculty member in
- the dept. who continues to use NB basically because he learned it 10 years ago
- and has absolutely no facility with computers and is afraid to try anything
- new. People who use lots of mathematical notation and equations use other
- word processors because NB cannot set a multi-level equation properly and
- people who use mainly words use WP. NB will never be able to reclaim the
- customer base it once had in the social sciences when it was the only word
- processor that knew the difference between a footnote and a footer.
-