Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!gatech!emory!platt
From: platt@emory.uucp (Dan Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland's Sprint
Message-ID: <3092@emory.uucp>
Date: 25 Jul 88 01:53:03 GMT
References: <3580@sfsup.UUCP> <563@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: platt@emory.UUCP (Dan Platt)
Organization: Emory University
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In article <563@lindy.Stanford.EDU> bljpl@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Lavigne) writes:
>... .. .. ....... ........ . .... 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.

Actually, there is an option under the print window to select preview to the
screen.  It may not have all the symbols that some formats may support, but
it will do a good job (I've been satisfied).  It doesn't do WYSIWYG directly
but you can certainly get a preview before you get a printout.  One problem
is that the processor does a format before the printout (rather than while
the printout is being done -- which without multitasking is much slower;
the formatting could be done between printer buffer fills).

Hope this is a help for those considering whether to buy sprint.

Dan