The $495 package, developed by New York City-headquartered Dragonfly Software, runs on the IBM-PC and compatible computers. In many ways it takes after another word-processing program, XyWrite, a popular package that is respected for its power and functionality but is also somewhat difficult to learn. Easier to master, Note Bene redefines the XyWrite keyboard to make what the developer apparently regards as a more logical keyboard.
Users of XyWrite - developed by Bedford, Mass.-based XyQuest Inc. - will recognize many of their favorite features in Note Bene: a screen whose area is mainly dedicated to text entry; keys that can be used in unusual ways (for example, Note Bene's character transposition key is NumLock); a superb spelling checker and thesaurus; fast searches through large files; and even some of the strange XyWrite command names, such as CALL to load an existing file. Like XyWrite, Note Bene uses a command line ...
