12. Scribe User Manual -- Compiling Scribe programs

12. Scribe User Manual -- Compiling Scribe programs

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Compiling Scribe programs

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SUFFIXES
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES


Chapters

Getting Started
Syntax
Standard Library
Hyperlinks and References
Index
Bibliography
Computer programs
Graphical User Interfaces
Customization
Scribe style files
Editing Scribe Programs
Compiling Scribe programs
Compiling Texi documents
Using Bibtex databases
Functions and Variables


Scribe

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In this chapter we present the Scribe compiler that compiles Scribe source text into various output formats. Scribe source files can be automatically generated from Texinfo source files by the scribeinfo compiler.

SYNOPSIS

scribe [options] [input]...


DESCRIPTION

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for the programming language Scribe can be found at the following URL. This manual page only documents the scribe compiler that compiles Scribe programs into HTML, TeX, Info or Nroff formats.


SUFFIXES

The scribe compiler uses file suffixes in order to select amongst its possible targets which one to choose. These suffixes are:

.scr
a Scribe source file.
.html
an HTML target file.
.tex
a TeX target file.
.info
an Info target file.
.man
a Nroff target file.
.sui
a Scribe url index file.


OPTIONS

-h,--help
This help message.
--options
Display the scribe options and exit.
--version
The version of Scribe.
-v,--verbose
Increase the verbosity.
-q,--query
Display informations about the Scribe configuration.
-t,--target <fmt>
The output target format.
-b,--base <base>
The base prefix to remove from links.
-o <dst>
Name the output file <dest>.
-I <path>
Add <path> to scribe path.
-J <path>
Add <path> to scribe style path.
-L <path>
Add <path> to scribe library path.
-B <path>
Add <path> to scribe bibliography path.
--eval <expr>
Evaluate expression.


ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Some shell variables control the Scribe search path:

SCRIBEPATH
Search path for source and style files.
SCRIBESTYLEPATH
Search path for style files.



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Last update Sun Feb 17 12:09:40 2002