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

Robert Goldman had found a scribe2latex converter and run this across  
the Garnet docs.  Maybe he should go ahead and and check those in to  
the sourceforege project.

Or are you just looking for readable versions of the docs.  I have pdf  
conversions of the postscript docs I could check in.

	--Russell Almond

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 04:16  PM, Sean Champ wrote:

> 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