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diff --git a/systems/msdos/nb4latex/README b/systems/msdos/nb4latex/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3d4dfb2e28 --- /dev/null +++ b/systems/msdos/nb4latex/README @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +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 + |