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From: ERIC@CMU-CS-C.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Software Product called "SCRIBE"
Message-ID: <3714@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 07:52:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  2 07:52:25 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Aug-83 04:32:09 EDT
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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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