[zzz]

During the 1980's Scribe word processing programs were common. Which
consists of simple text that can be read by Microsoft's WordPad or Word,
however with simple ASCII commands typed into the document's text such as:
@CENTER() to center the text within the parenthesis, or @FLUSHLEFT() to left
align text, etc. Then another program such as Scribe would do the actual
formatting and printing.

Since it would take days to manually reformat just one large file with
footnotes and indexing, so a conversion program would be useful. I gather
such converters existed during the 1990's but don't seem to be available now.
Undoubtedly I'm not searching with the right code word or publisher name.
Thanks for any tips or references.

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

According to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=96119 "History of
WinWord File Converters Categorized by Release", no version of Word for
Windows has ever included a file converter for Scribe.

zzz wrote:

During the 1980's Scribe word processing programs were common. Which
consists of simple text that can be read by Microsoft's WordPad or Word,
however with simple ASCII commands typed into the document's text such as:
@CENTER() to center the text within the parenthesis, or @FLUSHLEFT() to left
align text, etc. Then another program such as Scribe would do the actual
formatting and printing.

Since it would take days to manually reformat just one large file with
footnotes and indexing, so a conversion program would be useful. I gather
such converters existed during the 1990's but don't seem to be available now.
Undoubtedly I'm not searching with the right code word or publisher name.
Thanks for any tips or references.