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Re Ken's point of requiring submissions to his journal to be in either NB,
XYWrite, or ASCII...

Maybe you can do this in the humanities but it would be ridiculous in
political science.  In the mid-eighties Nota Bene had a small but possibly
even growing customer base in my discipline and in my own department as well.
At one point the entire office staff and about 80% of the faculty used NB.
Over the years because of dissatisfaction with support, high prices, lack of
information and updates, etc. etc. people fell away one by one.  The office
staff had never really liked the program and there was no support at the
university, so when a new person joined the staff they were very likely to
know WP and not NB.  As more and more faculty switched over to WP to be
compatible with co-authors all over the country, etc. it then made no sense
for the office staff to have to keep struggling with it so they switched over
to WP as well. At the present time, there is only one other faculty member in
the dept. who continues to use NB basically because he learned it 10 years ago
and has absolutely no facility with computers and is afraid to try anything
new.  People who use lots of mathematical notation and equations use other
word processors because NB cannot set a multi-level equation properly and
people who use mainly words use WP.  NB will never be able to reclaim the
customer base it once had in the social sciences when it was the only word
processor that knew the difference between a footnote and a footer.