[COFF] Scribe (Typesetting System) and Unix

josh joshnatis0 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 12:04:32 AEST 2022


Hi all,

Given the recent (awesome) discussions about the history of *roff and TeX, I
thought I'd ask about where Brian Reid's Scribe system fits in with all this.
His thesis is available online here:
http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/scan/CMU-CS-81-100.pdf, and in my
opinion is very interesting (also cites papers on roff and TeX). Does anybody
know if Scribe was ever used on Unix systems? Does it exist at all today?

Thanks :)
Josh


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