Scribe: How to use it for document production

Abstract

Scribe is a document production system that makes it easier to produce and maintain large complex technical documentation. Although its primary purpose is high-quality text formatting, Scribe also performs cross-reference tabulations, indexing, automatic generation of text such as tables of contents, figure integration. Many text formatting programs exist, and many can do some or all of what Scribe can do. But Scribe has proven through the years to be much easier to learn and use than most other systems, and documents produced in Scribe have proven to be much easier to edit and maintain than documents produced other ways.