[COFF] Scribe (Typesetting System) and Unix

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Clem Cole wrote:
> I always got the impression that texinfo was more of a shot against
> man pages and trying to push the purity of the 'ITS-way' to Unix.

ITS had a hypertext documentation system, so my assumtion would be that
RMS wanted to bring along that to the GNU vision.  I don't see that's it
would be abount purity, whatever that would mean for documentation.