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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
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Reply-To: verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber)
Organization: Ohio State University, Physics Department
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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