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+On NB4LATEX: current status and developments
+
+I wrote nb4latex many years ago, around 1994-1995. As many classicists and
+linguists, I had been a happy user of NotaBene, a Dos programme (later
+Windows) which was, for that age, spectacular -- you could write and print
+non-Latin chars (Greek, Hebrew, maths) with no effort and an excellent
+quality. Also the bibliographic data could be dealt with very well.
+Later I 'discovered' LaTeX -- a colleague in the maths department was using it
+and I was impressed by the elegance of the output. But Greek and so on could
+not be typed directly (there was no Unicode input at the time). So I planned
+to use NotaBene as input, and LaTeX as 'final' formatter. My programme was a
+filter from NotaBene to LaTeX.
+Then I left Windows for Linux -- and the programme became totally useless,
+because it's a Dos programme. Now I write everything with the (g)vim LaTeX
+suite, a Unicode encoding for Greek and other non-Latin chars, and it's a
+pleasure.
+
+I decided to upload the programme beacuse I receive some requests of
+people saying more or less: I have a book/article/essay written in NB and the
+typesetter/department/whatever wants to get in LaTeX.
+
+However, please notice:
+(1) he programme is old and that needs a radical update;
+(2) I must update the programme to support the modern Windows versions of NotaBene.
+
+Please write to my email address for suggestions and requests.
+
+Guido Milanese
+7th of January 2008
+guido.milanese@unicatt.it
+