Re: the 'scribe' prog. mentioned in the doc/src/makefile

"Scribe" was an old Unix-based text formatting program, in the style of
nroff. It was put out by a commercial company, and was popular at CMU
when Garnet was being written, in the late 1980's. I bet it is pretty
much gone now. I have an old SunOS machine, that will still run it, and
it says:
  Scribe 8.2  Copyright (C) 1981, 1993  Unus, Inc.
  Distributed exclusively by Cygnet Publishing Technologies, Inc.
The scribe source files have extension .mss and are plain-text with
embedded formatting commands that start with @

Brad Myers

Sean Champ wrote:
> 
> Hello;
> 
> When I was looking at the doc/src/makefile from the
> GarnetLisp/sourceforge sources, I noticed that the makefule employs a
> program named 'scribe'.
> 
> I managed to find a 'scribe' program here on Debian linux, but it
> looks like it's not the one that the garnet doc/src/makefile
> expects[1].
> 
> I'm googling for 'the right scribe' right now, but wondering:
> 
>  Would anyone here happen to know who it is that made the 'scribe'
>  that was used on the garnet foo.mss files? and, perhaps, where it
>  might be  available, now?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> --
> Sean Champ
> 
> Footnotes:
> [1]  the 'scribe' available here on Debian, which uses bigloo
>      scheme for its work, it appears to use a different syntax than
>      the garnet foo.mss files do; also, it's at version 1.something,
>      whereas some comments in garnet's manual-cover.ps mention a
>      Scribe V5 and V6