Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!verber From: verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Sprint word processor Message-ID: <676@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 18:42:38 GMT References:Reply-To: verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) Organization: Ohio State University, Physics Department Lines: 25 Sprint is my favorite WP for the PC... in fact it is just about the only word processor for the PC I like. If you have used the EMACS text editor and Scribe/LaTeX and liked it, Sprint is for you. I suspect that Borland purchased FinalWord, which was the supported version of Perfect Writer, which was a Scribe/Emacs clone. For writing large documents it would be hard to beat Sprint (other than using real LaTeX which I prefer). Sprint really understands the idea of sections, chapters, etc. Not on this using style sheets, divisions, etc. Just say @chapter(ChapterName) and you have a new chapter, in the style you like, automatically numbered, running footer/headers changes to reflect the new chapter name, and a table of contents entry. Since it is basically an EMACS editor things can be completely customized to reflect your editing style. I leave it in Emacs mode, but many people make prefer the WordStar/MS-Word/MultiMate/etc user interfaces. The only down side of Sprint is that it's translator to other formats isn't the greatest (if works, but all the formating isn't perserved. -- Mark A. Verber System Programmer, Physics Department, Ohio State University verber@mps.ohio-state.edu (614) 267-5979