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From: bljpl@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Lavigne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland's Sprint
Message-ID: <563@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Jul 88 22:50:38 GMT
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Reply-To: bljpl@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Lavigne)
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I've been using Sprint for about three weeks and so far I'm very
satisfied. It seems to have a powerful and well-documented macro
language, a very capable editor and formatter, and I find the
standard Borland interface logically organized and easy to use.
The real selling point seems to be that you can customize almost
everything about the program. It comes with alternative
interfaces that let you use Word Perfect, MicroSoft Word, or
Wordstar commands and you can apparently change any of the editor
commands you don't like. Borland also seems to provide quick
support through a forum on CompuServe. I got an answer the next
day to an obscure question I had. One thing Sprint does NOT give
you is a good WYSIWYG preview mode. But since I use Ventura for
that anyway, I don't need it. The formatter is very powerful,
however, even if you need to print your text out to see what
you're doing. Sprint can do some things -- e.g. automatically
numbered lists and three-level index entries -- that even Ventura
can't do. The program is certainly worth $99.00.