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From: vijay@topaz.ARPA (P. Vijay)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs Manual (Scribe Version)
Message-ID: <2929@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 09:52:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.2929
Posted: Fri Jul 26 09:52:48 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jul-85 03:17:23 EDT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: GNU Emacs Manual Scribe


	As all of you know, GNU Emacs Manual was released as a  set of
files to be processed with TeX. Since, at the time of  release, we did
not have TeX  installed in our system,  I converted the  files so that
they could  be  processed  using Scribe (Version  4), the license  for
which we have. This has the following advantages.

	* For sites that have only Scribe and no TeX, this is the only
way to have a readable version of the GNU Emacs manual.

	* While it is true that TeX  is available to the public  free,
as far as I know there is, as yet, no laser printer available for free
(:-)) that will produce printed copies of the TeX sources.  Because of
the design  philosophy  involved in  TeX  (the output of  TeX  must be
identical, irrespective  of the output  device), there is  no   device
driver to produce processed output from TeX to devices like  terminals
and ordinary  line printers that  have only one font,  which  is fixed
width.  Whereas, Scribe does have a driver  for dumb printing  devices
like ttys and lpts.

	*   I also like  to  have the manual  on-line,  so  that I can
consult it inside Emacs.

	I have converted emacs.tex   and ggloss.tex  to  corresponding
.mss  files that can  be used with  Scribe, Version  4  (probably even
earlier versions). This message is a query to find out if anyone would
want  this.  If there are  sufficient responses,  I'll  put the scribe
sources and the scribe output for dumb devices, in a centrally located
site. If mit-prep would  agree to having  these  files available, that
would be the ideal location. Please respond in  mail to me,  so that I
can condense the responses and post in net.emacs.

							--Vijay--