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I have a problem with Nota Bene 3.1 locking up when I am doing what I might
call moderate to heavy editing, as opposed to simple text entry.  When I go
back to add or revise a thought in a manuscript, for example, my program
will lock up totally.  It always inserts at least one new delta when doing
so, and seems to have tried to block a sentence or paragraph to include
within the delta.

Folks here might be able to help me by responding to this question:
Does anyone on the list use 1) the auto-replace feature and
2) the APA style at the same time and *not* have the lock-up exper-
ience I describe?

My situation, alas, is complicated by extra factors: 1) the style I use is
actually a modified APA style.  But APA would be the closest way to describe
it.  2) My keyboard is also modified (mostly to use Wordstar style keystrokes)
But, I would be interested to know whether anyone uses a combination of a
style and auto-replace without having periodic lockups when editing.

I have, of course, asked Dragonfly for help, and have sent them sample files
showing them the inserted delta, the style used, and my configuration.  They
have not been able to help, however.

In a Boston-based Nota Bene users group, four other people in a small group of
about 12 had encountered similar lockups.  No one has identified a solution,
to my knowledge.

I might mention that these lockups, in my experience, occur almost any time
I attempt heavy re-writing, involving insertion of new text.  It's been
happening for three years now, and across dozens of different software and
hardware configurations.  When it happens within Desqview or Software Carousel,
the option to quit Nota Bene and save files as  *.tmp files does not work.
It too is frozen.  My solution has been to keep a tape recorder handy so I
can read new revisions from off my screen and then type them in again later.

Any help would be appreciated.  This sort of problem is one of the reasons
I get a bit perturbed at times over Dragonfly's not fixing smaller problems
before coming out with their big 4.0 version, which, of course, is still
another "month" away.

Thanks in advance.

Mike
mto@world.std.com