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Author: Brian Reid
Family: MarkupLanguage

Author: Brian Reid
Family: MarkupLanguage
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_%28markup_language%29
Manual: [Scribe Introductory User's Manual First Edition 1978]

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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_%28word_processing%29 for details

 Scribe is a text processor for a markup language,

 Author:   Brian Reid
 Family:   MarkupLanguage
 License:  Commercial

It was considered to be an influence in the development of markup languages such as SGML. Scribe was the result of a 1980 doctoral thesis by Brian Reid at Carnegie Mellon University, and intended to address limitations in the Digital Equipment Corporation RUNOFF formatter. Rights to it were sold to a company called Unilogic, Ltd., who offered it as a commercial product.

Reid received the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1982 for his work on Scribe.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_%28word_processing%29 for details