info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (02/19/85)
From: George J. Carrette <GJC@MIT-MC> At LMI (Lisp Machine Inc) we have been using a macro package called BoTex to typeset all our software documentation, plus various papers and memos. This macro package is built on TeX and implements the capabilities of a formatter called Bolio which was previously used at MIT to format the lispmachine manual, a 859 page document with multiple tables of contents, multiple indices, and full page-level cross references. All in all it looks a bit like bolio, a bit like runoff, and a bit like scribe. There is an extremely effective fire-wall between the BoTeX user and TeX, although there is an escape, @tex into TeX document assembler language. RMS (of ITS/TOPS-20 emacs fame) was the main implementor of this macro package. If there is interest (i.e. response to this message) then some effort will be put into making this package freely available, in much the same way that TeX is.
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (02/25/85)
From: decvax!seismo!ut-sally!shell!buck@BERKELEY
I would be very interested in obtaining a copy of your macro
package for TeX.
Thank you,
A. Lester Buck @ Shell Development Co.
{ihnp4, pur-ee, ut-sally}!shell!buck