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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
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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.
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