barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (04/01/91)
In article <41503@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> edward@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Edward Wang) writes: >Does anyone know whether Symbolics machines have their >own typesetting programs? If so, what are they like >(quick comparison with TeX, Scribe, or whatever would be nice)? Genera includes a simple Scribe-like formatter built in. It can be invoked from the Command Processor with the "Format File" command, and from Zmacs with various commands that begin with "Format". If you purchase the Concordia documention preparation product, it includes the hypertext formatter that Symbolics uses to produce their manuals and online documentation. I think it's basically a WYSIWYG Zwei-based editor. >Are they in Lisp? Of course they are. However, if you meant, "are they in Common Lisp and portable?", probably not -- very little Genera software is. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
attila@breeze.bellcore.com (04/02/91)
In article <41503@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> edward@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Edward Wang) writes: > Does anyone know whether Symbolics machines have their > own typesetting programs? If so, what are they like > (quick comparison with TeX, Scribe, or whatever would be nice)? > Are they in Lisp? > > Thanks. Besides Scribe and Concordia, a complete LaTeX system is also available. It includes macro package for markup, a Pascal runtime to make dvi, a graphic system to make sketches, previewer to see what is going on and printer drivers for postscript beasts. It is free from MIT AI lab. Leslie A. Walko