laser-lovers@uw-beaver (06/05/85)
From: allegra!convex!ctvax!pedz@UW-BEAVER.arpa We currently have many documents and manuals written with Scribe. Some of our customers would prefer to get these items except using a different text formatter. Most of them prefer to have them in troff although I am sure that there will be others who want TeX and prehaps runoff. Are there any translators between any two of the above processors? I would be interested in public domain software or products sold by other companies. Also, if you can give any insight into the problem of trying to write such a translator, I would be interested in hearing from you. I'll summarize the responses I get. Thank you Perry Smith pedz@ctvax p.s. Thanks to all who answered my type font question. Now I'm trying to find a place which carries those books all of you mentioned. [[Editor's note: Van Jacobson of LBL wrote a translator from Scribe to LaTeX which is named s2latex. It is included on the Unix TeX distribution tape. Anyone know about Scribe to troff? --Rick ]]
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (06/06/85)
From: allegra!packard!harvard!sasaki@UW-BEAVER.arpa (Marty Sasaki) While this doesn't answer the question of scribe-to-(pick your language) it might be of interest for someone who is starting out in the documentation business. There were several sessions given by the folks who did the documentation for VMS v4 (and other things as well). They designed a simple language that is used for formatting their documentation. They then used a pretty simple macro processor to translate the output to the text formatter of their choice (either runoff or TeX). This has the advantage of being easy to implement, flexible, and cheap. Marty Sasaki