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Article #7009Re: Looking for text formatter like Scribe or Scribble
From: Ethan Bradford
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1991 02:48
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1991 02:48
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LaTeX is a public domain set of TeX macros which have the flavor of Scribe. To quote the designer of LaTeX, "Fundamental to LaTeX is the idea of a document style that determines how the document is to be formatted -- an idea stolen from Brian Reid's Scribe text formatting system." (He also quotes Stravinsky as saying, "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.") I used and loved Scribe for several years and I have found that LaTeX is very successful at implimenting the good ideas of Scribe, while retaining the underlying power of TeX. The manual (like the Scribe manual) is also a delight to read and use. You can buy LaTeX for almost any system, and you can get it for free for most. For a while, Scribe was on its way to becoming the standard text formatter, but now I think LaTeX is clearly taking over. -- -- Ethan (ethanb@u.washington.edu)
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