Date   : Thu, 16 Sep 1982 19:49:09 EST (Thursday)
From   : Mike Meyer <mwm@Okc-Unix>
Subject: Scribe -> ??? translator

I just saw the propaganda from the Softcrafts people concerning their Fancy
Fonts package.  It is as nice as everybody says it is. In fact, the typeface
database that comes with it is worth the asking price.

However - the formatter that it comes with seems to be a lossage. Well, it
doesn't look like what I'm used to (scribble), and is noticeably less powerful.
The fix would seem to be some sort of preprocessor.

So: does somebody out there have a CP/M based macro processor that can
be made to turn something that looks like scribe into something that
looks like nroff? Does somebody have a Fancy Fonts -> scribble preprocessor?
Is somebody working on one of the two?

Now, for the reason this went (I hope) to unix-wizards: I remember seeing
several people looking for scribe -> troff translators. This would seem to be
close to what I want. Is the source to such a beast available?

       thanx,
       mike