Scribe text processing system

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The Scribe text processing system is an early, influential document preparation and formatting program developed by Brian Reid that pioneered many concepts later used in systems like LaTeX.

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instanceOf document preparation system
markup language
text formatting system
basedOn semantic markup
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creatorAffiliation Carnegie Mellon University NERFINISHED
designedBy Brian Reid NERFINISHED
developer Brian Reid NERFINISHED
domain computer typesetting
digital typography
document engineering
era early text processing systems
feature automatic table of contents generation
bibliographic references
cross-references
footnotes
index generation
macro-based markup
style files
historicalPeriod early 1980s
late 1970s
influenced LaTeX NERFINISHED
TeX-based systems
academic publishing tools
document preparation systems
markup languages
license proprietary
notableFor early use of semantic markup in text processing
influence on LaTeX design
outputFormat device-independent output
printer-specific formats
pioneeredConcept declarative document styles
portable document markup
pioneeredConcept separation of content and presentation
style-driven document formatting
programmingLanguage Lisp NERFINISHED
relatedTo LaTeX NERFINISHED
TeX NERFINISHED
troff NERFINISHED
supports bibliographic databases
citations
device-independent formatting
logical document structure
style separation
usedIn academic document preparation
technical documentation

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Brian Reid notableWork Scribe text processing system