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+What is Skribe
+**************
+
+Skribe is programming language design for the production of electronic 
+documents. With Skribe one can:
+  
+   - Produce HTML web pages.
+   - Produce PS files.
+   - ...
+
+One may also:
+
+   - Translate Texinfo files into HTML.
+
+   - re-use BibTex bibliography databases.
+
+
+Obtaining Skribe
+****************
+
+New versions of Skribe may downloaded from:
+
+    ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Skribe
+
+
+Skribe distrubtion
+******************
+
+The Skribe distribution consists of several directories:
+
+  INSTALL	installation instructions.
+
+  Makefile 	the Makefile to compile Skribe.
+
+  README 	this document.
+
+  README.java 	specific information regarding the JVM port of Skribe.
+
+  etc		private directory.
+
+  bin		the directory where binary files are compiled to.
+
+  lib		the directory where Skribe libraries are compiled to.
+
+  configure	configuration driver script.
+    
+  emacs		Skribe emacs mode.
+
+  examples	Various example of Skribe texts.
+
+  doc		the Skribe sources for Skribe manuals. 
+
+  src		the Scheme source code for Skribe.
+
+  skr		the Skribe source code for the Skribe engines and styles.
+
+  tools		the Bigloo source code for the Texi->Skribe and BibTex->Skribe
+		compilers.
+
+
+Acknowledgements
+****************
+
+We thank all the people who helped me while writing Skribe. My first
+though goes to Frederic Boussinot who's the first pre-alpha-tester of
+Skribe always volunteering for new testing new features ;-) I then
+thanks all the people that send me fixes, suggestions and
+improvements, that is, all the people that appear in the ChangeLog
+file. Many thanks to all of you.