Hi Larry,

Are you suggesting that "the Book" should be on a website?  That would be "a
piece of cake" - hmn, seems like I just said that - but I question that it
would be as usable, speedwise, etc. as a resident application on the user's
Mac - CD or not CD.  Maybe I don't understand what you're saying, though I
agree STAZ needs more customers, which is one of the reasons that I've thought
of doing a PC Version of "the Book" once it is "completed".  Don't know how
I'd handle Demos, except by "fixed framing them with Screen shots".

Joe Wilkins

Laurent SIEBENMANN wrote:

> Hi Joe Wilkins, and Phil Yates
>
> I still have just the foggiest impressions of
> XBasic, such as:
>
>  --- some stuff like the documentation looks well done. One
> strength is the ACCESSIBILITY of the documentation.  HTML and
> TEXT and also more sophisticated formats.  I'ld like to see FB do
> as well. The HTML is available both online and as a compressed
> archive. Joe, HTML seems to me the most essential to attract FB
> users via the web. And it has to be pretty good.  Even if you can
> offer better formats for the FB book in progress, the better
> formats will not have the drawing power of HTML. Statz needs more
> customers!
>
>   http://www.egroups.com/files/xbasic/docs
>
>  --- XBasic has a substantial ongoing project concerning
> Text-to-speec
>
>   http://www.egroups.com/files/xbasic/speach
>
> Phil, might that offer grist for YSpeak?  Another source of
> inspiration might be TexEdit.

I took a quick look at XBasic.  Are you seeing XBasic as competition or what?
I suppose that once the Mac becomes a UNIX engine, that XBasic could be FB
competition?  According to the FAQ sheet I downloaded, it promises to be all
things to all people, but only for WINDOZE or UNIX.

Did I miss something?

Joe Wilkins