Scribe support in GNU emacs
John Black · 1989
Think of Scribe1 as a compiler for a document description language; Scribe is NOT an editor. Scribe is a “high level” document processing system, or a “composition engine” which permits users to deal with documentation at a higher level of abstraction than is possible with “word-processors” or “page processors.” One of the methods used to provide this higher level of abstraction is the separation2 of the “form” or “layout” of the document from the “content;” thus avoiding distraction of the document's author with superfluous details of document format. This frees the writer to concentrate on the content of a document, rather than its format.