Re: Emergency! Shoebox not working!

You neither back up on zips or floppies?
That's folly! <G>  Always keep important
stuff on extractible data devices.

Nota Bene is a wordprocessor that some of
you may have heard of.  It's especially popular
in Europe and Israel, and it is designed for
scholars of language.  It has very easy management
of European characters, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew,
and I believe it's working on Sanskrit.  It is designed
to work with bibliography databases, and to adapt
your text and footnote formats to the various scholarly
styles--putting the page numbers and setting the margins
automatically for MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.  It's
immensely complicated, but the Lingua program (which
allows you to adapt a foreign character with two key
strokes) is SO way more plastic and ductile than either
Word or Word Perfect.  So that's why I use it.

Dragonfly Software makes it.  It used to be XyWrite.

S.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Jones <feuchard@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: Emergency! Shoebox not working!


> Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > Do you keep your files on a zip or a floppy so
> > that at least another computer with Shoebox
> > on it can read them or print them out?  If you
> > don't, I would suggest in future that you never
> > commit anything important to a hard-drive, or
> > make extensive backups on disk and in hardcopy.
>
> Neither. However, I can still access the databases using notepad, just not
> shoebox, which is frustrating. Everything is backed up (too scared to do
> otherwise).
>
> > As for new programs, Word might be best.
> > Microsoft Excel has a decent database for
> > lexicons.  Me, I do everything on Notabene.
>
> What's Notabene?
>
> Dan
>