Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lts!amanda
From: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Any detailed info on CAPPS Prime...?
Message-ID: <873@lts.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 01:20:59 GMT
References: <10006@vx2.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Reston, VA
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spector@vx2.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) writes:
    Can anyone give me some really in-depth objective analysis of
    Symantec's CAPPS Prime?  I would like to use it (or something like it)
    for writing a small Application and a DA that does all of the usual
    text editing stuff, plus keyword bolding, etc for certain kinds of info..

From what you've described, Capps Prime sounds perfect for what you
want to do.

    	Does it work (well, poorly, etc)?

It works quite well, and quite quickly.

    	Does it currently work with THINK C 3.0?

Seems to for me.

    	Is styled TE supported?

Not really.  Since it's a replacement for TE (instead of a set of
patches), you don't get the nifty new features.  On the other hand,
there are a lot of hooks for embedding "escape codes" in your text
for doing things like font & style changes.  It's not quite as good
as the new TE at this (no script manager support, for example), but
it's good enough for a lot of applications, and it does do tabs and
more than 32K of text...

    	Is it likely to die under the next system release?

Well, I bought my copy back at MacWorld/Expo a year and a half ago,
and it still seems pretty happy.

    	What are its limitations..?

No Script Manager support, doesn't do variable line spacing within a
PE record (their substitute for a TE record)., will not swap parts of
the text to disk, so you're limited by available memory.  No major
limits unless you're trying to write a word processor with it.

It's well worth the price, in my opinion.

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