Re: All power to the "WorldMaster"?

["Maureen Kelly" <kellybs>]

Elaine,

Yes, of course I was laughing only because I was laughing with you.... The
inner logic, magic, or craziness of the innards of computing are far and
away beyond what I can understand....that's what the list is good
for.....there was a banner in the Pan Am training room at JFK which
read....no question is a stupid question....so just when I'm ready to
chicken out I jump in with my stupid question and there is always a smart,
generous lister out there waiting to help.....go for it!!!

Maureen



----- Original Message -----
From: <ELuthy>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: All power to the "WorldMaster"?


> I, too, just received a message providing me with a Safeworld account and
> password although I did not request one. I'm not sure how to interpret
this.
>
> What I really need--and have needed for two years--is instructions on how
to
> open a  NBDos 4.2 file in NBWin and have it formatted for printing just as
it
> was in 4.2: i.e., with a header that is wider than the body (so I can
print
> the page number in the top right corner of the page even though the text
> itself is only ca. 4 inches wide), with exactly 27 (double-spaced) lines
to
> the page, and with formatting beginning on the first page, not the second
> page. (Or perhaps these things are simply not possible to do in NBWin.)
>
> Although I still key, sort, and edit my indexes in NB3 (whose totally
> key-command structure and highly controllable window openings/sequencings
I
> find ideal for processing the massive amount of  entry-inputting that must
be
> done in an exceedingly short time to meet deadline, often 4000 lines in
less
> than a week), since 1995 I have opened and tweaked the finished index in
> NB4.2 to access its more up-to-date printer drivers.
>
> When the need to purchase a new laptop caused me to have to "upgrade" to
> Win98SE in 2000 I also purchased NBWin 5.2 (then the latest version) with
the
> hope of opening my 4.2 files in 5.2, and accessing its printing
capabilities,
> as well as what I hoped would be enhanced abilities to convert the
finished
> files to the upgraded w.p. formats (Word, etc.) currently used by various
> publishers--expecting, too, as time went on, to become familiar with 5.2's
> other features as I had gradually done with 4.2's. I have since invested
MANY
> hours attempting simply to open a 4.2 index file in 5.2 without the format
> getting wrecked in the process, but have so far been totally unsuccessful.
(I
> was finally able to print 27 lines to the page by a laborious process of
> iteration wherein I kept changing the spacing in small increments and then
> counting the resultant lines by hand.) Each two- or three-hour
> attempt-session with NBWin has ended in such bitter, hellish, tearful
> frustration. I can only run to bury my head in the lovely old sand of NB3
and
> try not to think about what will happen when THIS laptop needs replacement
> and I will no longer be able to run DOS programs at all.
>
> I think I have not approached the list before because my problem is so
> retrograde it is quite likely beneath contempt for up-to-date power
> users...and the NBWin manualless door has seemed so completely closed to
me
> it's been hard to know where to begin a question. (To give you an idea of
> where my brain is at, I taught Assembler Language at IBM in the 1960s,
when
> disks were the size of tires and held 8000 bytes--and followed along until
> Gates' Windows so totally covered up the underlying process I could no
longer
> fathom what was going on in there.) Now perhaps the list itself is
cracking
> up, and this will be my last chance to ask.
>
> TIA for any help.
>
>
> Elaine Luthy
> Professional Indexing and Copyediting Services
> (212) 366-0761
> ELuthy
>
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