What is Scribe
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Scribe is programming language design for the production of electronic 
documents. With Scribe one can:
  
   - Produce HTML web pages.
   - Produce PS files.
   - Produce Info files (documentation files suitable for Emacs).
   - Produce man pages (Unix documentation format).

One may also:

   - Translate Texinfo files into HTML.
   - Upload Scribe page on an Apache server and dynamically expanse it into
     HTML when loaded by client.


Obtaining Scribe
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New versions of Scribe may downloaded from:

    ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Scribe


Scribe distrubtion
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The Scribe distribution consists of several directories:

  INSTALL	installation instructions.

  Makefile 	the Makefile to compile Scribe.

  README 	this document.

  apache	the source code for the Scribe Apache module.

  autoconf	private directory

  bin		the directory where binary files are compiled to.

  configure	configuration script.
    
  emacs		Scribe emacs mode.

  examples	Various example of Scribe texts.

  lib		the directory where Scribe libraries are compiled to.

  manuals	the Scribe sources for Scribe manuals. 

  scribe	the Bigloo source code for the Scribe application.

  scribeapi	the Bigloo source code for the Scribe scribeapi library.

  scribecgi	the Bigloo source code cgi scripting.

  scribehtml	the Bigloo source code for the HTML back-end.

  scribehtmlgui	the Bigloo source code for the HTML GUI back-end.

  scribeinfo	the Bigloo source code for the texi->scribe compiler.

  scribeman	the Bigloo source code for the MAN back-end.

  scribetex	the Bigloo source code for the TEX back-end.

  scribetext	the Bigloo source code for the ASCII (TEXT) and  INFO back-end.

  styles	variaous Scribe style files.

