below.... [excellent job -- you wrote what I had planned -- few tweeks/color added below].
Scribe was in the mix after troff and TeX.
Fun fact, I believe that bwk was Brian's thesis committee
Brian Reid’s observation was that writers should be writing, and publishing professionals should design how documents look.
Many of us who wrote articles for the Bell System Technical Journal would disagree. The BSTJ publishers could transform something that made sense when viewed as troff output into unintelligible gibberish. You cannot split a UNIX command line into multiple lines just because it "looks better". Sometimes format really matters.