Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!ns!ddb From: ddb@ns.ns.com (David Dyer-Bennet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Sprint Summary: Sprint looks interesting so far... Keywords: Sprint, Final Word, Borland, Emacs, Scribe Message-ID: <318@ns.ns.com> Date: 6 Jul 88 21:20:45 GMT References: <398@csed-1.IDA.ORG> <741@cgh.UUCP> Organization: Network Systems Corp. Mpls MN Lines: 28 I picked up sprint at egghead this weekend ($150). It's the first wp package I've looked at that I can tolerate (I'm from the edit / format school). It doesn't do on-screen preview, but it shows line breaks and indents and such on screen. It does not show multiple columns (but it supports multiple columns, up to 6). The set of user interfaces supplied with it is sufficiently complete that it includes an emacs interface (which surprised me by containing incremental search!). I used Finalword on cp/m for a while and couldn't tolerate it, but I like sprint a lot so far. The previous posting describing how you enter all these formatting commands is incomplete; you can do it that way, but you can also do it from the set of menus, or you can do it by "shortcut keys" that you define (or are predefined). They show up on screen sometimes as obscure codes, but usually they show up as reverse-video blocks with a meaningful phrase in them. The DEC la100 printer driver doesn't work at all on my la100; I'm in the process of fixing it. And I can't get it to drive a qms Kiss laser printer properly with proportional fonts yet. If these can't be resolved there's a problem, but I imagine they can be. -- -- David Dyer-Bennet ddb@viper.Lynx.MN.Org, ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia!viper!ddb Fidonet 1:282/341.0, (612) 721-8967 hst/2400/1200/300