Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Perfect Writer Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 89 03:49:37 GMT References: <1006DISPATCH@NCSUVM> <1188@atha.AthabascaU.CA> <16819@netnews.upenn.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 I've played with Sprint a bit, trying to get Scribe compatibility. You can certainly see that it is based on technology similar to Scribe's. However it has diverged for a number of years. User level stuff tends to be fairly similar. However document descriptions (i.e. format files) use rather different facilities for Scribe and Sprint. If you put @modify commands at the beginning of your files, they will typically be different for Scribe and Sprint. Experienced Scribe users will find it fairly easy to move to Sprint, but maintaining a document that can be compiled with either one is a bit hairy. I've done it, but it requires a lot of work in setting up a format that works identically on both systems. Even then if users need to be able to adjust formats on the fly, e.g @begin(description, indent -10) you're going to run into differences in the way things work that will be visible at the user level.