I prefer to use a freeware program called NoteTab light, although 
NoteTab Pro is worth the small fee to upgrade. www.notetab.com . I was 
introduced to it when I attended Daniel Pitti's EAD Publishing class at 
Rare Book School. The only feature I miss compared to X-Metal is the 
search and replace function, therefore I keep an old copy of X-Metal 3.0 
on hand.

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Diane Worrell wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> A colleague and I are working on implementing EAD, which we are 
> finding quite a challenge.  I would be interested in hearing opinions 
> as to the advantages and disadvantages of using XMetal 4.6 vs. Word 
> Perfect 12 software for encoding.
>
> Thanks,
> Diane
>
>
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