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Subject: Re:  Text Processor Translators
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 02:09:43 EDT
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From: allegra!packard!harvard!sasaki@UW-BEAVER.arpa (Marty Sasaki)

While this doesn't answer the question of scribe-to-(pick your language)
it might be of interest for someone who is starting out in the documentation
business.

There were several sessions given by the folks who did the documentation
for VMS v4 (and other things as well). They designed a simple language that
is used for formatting their documentation. They then used a pretty simple
macro processor to translate the output to the text formatter of their choice
(either runoff or TeX). This has the advantage of being easy to implement,
flexible, and cheap.

			Marty Sasaki