Wow, the first one I tried came out pretty weird, xword treats single squares as separate answers, but across lite doesn't. So Cryptic238.puz has 28 numbered squares in across lite, but 124 in xword. All the extra ones are just blank clues, so it ends up working anyway. A side effect of this is that it might make it a little more difficult to get at the notepad data, since without an accurate count xword just treats every string at the end of the file (including the notepad data) as a clue, and then throws away the ones it doesn't use. So it might be hard or it might not.


RE letters on the right: I'm right handed and they don't bother me on the left, but that sounds like a good idea to try.
We might even be able to fit a full qwerty layout on there in full screen mode, with most of the other toolbar buttons eliminated and the rest moved above/below the keyboard.