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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+This is what I have been able to assemble of what was apparently a
+full distribution of s2latex, a converter for turning Scribe text into
+LaTeX-compatible files. I have been unable to test the converter (we
+don't have Scribe here), and the files that I received were evidently
+incomplete. The original author (Van Jacobson) is unreachable by
+E-mail.
+
+The most glaring lacuna was the fact that the file s2l.y did not end
+in a newline. Its last line looked like this:
+
+#include "lex.yy.c<end of file>
+
+I have appended a double quote and a newline to this file; that way,
+the thing at least compiles and links. Nonetheless, one has to
+suspect that other stuff might be missing as well, and since I can't
+test the executable, I can give no guarantee.
+
+When you do a make, you will get a yacc message about 81 shift/reduce
+and 48 reduce/reduce conflicts. According to the comments in the file
+s2l.y, this can be ignored.
+
+If you get the s2latex program to work, please let me know; also tell
+me whether you're satisfied with it. In particular, if you make
+changes to the sources to get it to work, please pass them on to me,
+in case someone else should ask for the program.
+
+-- Mark James <mark@bdblues.altair.fr> or <mark@nuri.inria.fr>
+