is used by the DTD's which come with
&sdc; to find definitions for the SGML entities related to the
author. These two are &authent;. It may define some more. But these
are used to insert default values for the name and the institution of
the author. Therefore it's a good idea to set the environment variable
~/.typesetrc if any, is loaded after startup and comand
line evaluation. It might contain any scheme code.
&sdc; uses the files and directory structure in its library to
parse the document and determine the formatting. For a descrition
of this refer to the developers documentation.
Furthermore sdc uses the