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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Typesetting on a Lisp machine
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.053802.15382@Think.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 91 05:38:02 GMT
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In article <41503@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> edward@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Edward Wang) writes:
>Does anyone know whether Symbolics machines have their
>own typesetting programs?  If so, what are they like
>(quick comparison with TeX, Scribe, or whatever would be nice)?

Genera includes a simple Scribe-like formatter built in.  It can be invoked
from the Command Processor with the "Format File" command, and from Zmacs
with various commands that begin with "Format".

If you purchase the Concordia documention preparation product, it includes
the hypertext formatter that Symbolics uses to produce their manuals and
online documentation.  I think it's basically a WYSIWYG Zwei-based editor.

>Are they in Lisp?

Of course they are.  However, if you meant, "are they in Common Lisp and
portable?", probably not -- very little Genera software is.

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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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