[net.unix-wizards] Software Product called "SCRIBE"

jackson%nadc@sri-unix.UUCP (08/01/83)

I am interested in learning more about a software product
used for producing documents, called SCRIBE.  If anyone
has had any experience with SCRIBE, and has comments -- either
positive or negative -- I would very much appreciate it if
they would contact me.

Please contact:  jackson@nadc

Thank you very much!

ERIC@CMU-CS-C.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (08/02/83)

SCRIBE is a (up to a while ago, THE) product of Unilogic Inc.
The majority of people that began Unilogic seem to have come from
Carnegie-Mellon University.  The father of Scribe is Brian Reid
presently of Stanford.  It is a documement preparation system that supports
arbitrary font types on arbitrary printing devices.  Output devices
range from everything from Line Printer/Daisy Wheel/Diable types
through Cat/Versatec phototypesetters and Xerox 9700/Dover Printers.
It has had wide use at CMU and Stanford and has more following
(100:1) than troff on the 780's (at CMU, anyways).  Scribe is
running on Vaxen, DEC-10's and DEC-20's, and probably elsewhere.

It is a highly structured preparation system, and lacks many of
the cryptocities of troff.

For more information, I'd start by contacting Unilogic@CMU-20C or
FRYD@CMU-20C.

-e
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jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) (08/04/83)

This is a public service announcement.

For a description of various formatters, especially TeX, *roff and
scribe, smalltalk, wang  and others, it is very informative to read:

	"Document Formatting Systems: Survey, Concepts, and Issues"
		by
	R. Futura, F Scofield, and A Shaw
		in
	ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 14, No 3, September 1982.

-- jaap {mcvax,philaps}!mcvax!jaap