Typesetting Systems

• Many Workstation-based, Incompatible Systems
• Portable, Tag-based Software
  • troff/nroff
    • Non-intuitive UNIX/text-based system
    • Produced output for print and online from the same file
    • Limited use on non-UNIX systems
    • Tags were generally format-controllers
  • Scribe
    • Started at CMU in 1976

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