Sprint (word processor): Difference between revisions

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== Features ==

- the swap file updated every 3 seconds made Sprint crash-proof: demos in trade shows were made with a person typing while an otheranother was pulling out the power cord: the typist could resume his work as soon as the machine had restarted; the edits to a file could be kept as long as you were not satisfied with the result as they were kept in the swap file as long as you did not ask to save them: some people with laptops (curious beasts at the time) did even work on their laptops on files that were saved later at the office;

- the spell-as-you-type feature could beep at you in real-time when detecting a typo: MS-Word needed almost ten years to have the red snakes under the suspect words;

- multilingual editing with dictionary switching, support for hyphenation, spelling and thesaurus dictionaries were a market-leading feature; the improvements brought by Borland linguistic team to the dictionaries were also a great plus, not yet matched by the competitors;

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- the ability to publish very large documents (hundreds of pages) with strict formatting consistency and automatic table of contents and index generation (plus table of figures, table of authorities and so on) made the product almost mandatory for the market of technical documents: Borland manuals (languages, etc) have been published on Sprint for years;

- the powerful PostScript interface (with even the ability to print in-line EPS images with dimensioning) and ability to add in-line PostScript procedures made the product rather popular in the printing industry: making a 200 pages novel fit into 192 was simply a matter of changing the point size from 11 to 10.56: Sprint could size by 0.04 increment and scale the line spacing, kerning, etc accordingly.

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