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

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:00:54PM -0400, Brad Myers wrote:
> "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 @

ok

fwiw, i found this, sometime after sending that mail:

 ftp://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/atk-ftp/andrew-8.0/

and it includes

 ftp://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/atk-ftp/andrew-8.0/contrib/mit/scribetext

...which looks like something that should be ablle to process the
scribe .mss docs into another format (MIT 'scribetext' ?)

I'm not sure how much more grokable that format will be, but I'm set
on finding out; I'm trying to get that andrew code compiled with it,
currently.  


Might someone at CMU have an old manual about the Scribe format,
laying around somewhere? Ideally, such a thing could be  a
basis  for figuring out how to process the scribe .mss docs with some
Common Lisp code.


thanks,

--
sean