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From: Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Sprint
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Date: 5 Jul 88 23:14:26 GMT
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Paul Homchick writes (about SPRINT formerly FinalWord II):
> You don't get on-screen formatting, or dimensioning in picas, or preview
> using a bit-mapped mode, or anything like that.  If you want something
> to be centered you put a @=() around it.  If you want an indented list,
> you say @begin(list) at the beginning, and @end(list) at the end.

	It's not quite this bad.  One of the improvements Borland made
was to add significant (though not spectacular) support for text-mode
WYSIKLWYG (What You See Is Kinda Like What You Get). You still get
the very powerful macro formatting language. You also get a lot of
direct editor specification and display for common formatting stuff
like indentation, centering, justification, page breaks, and font
changes (using color & intensity).  Yes, it's not Ventura Publisher,
but it handles many of the formatting needs of memos, letters, and
short papers without requiring you to muck about learning the
formatting langugue and imbedding cryptic commands in your text.

Disclaimer: I'm a former Borland employee and this information is
based on early alpha versions from last summer and my knowledge of
the Sprint product plans.  I've not seen the actual shipping version
of Sprint.