@farmerman,
It is teached in my "ore resources" course to help identify small minerals in an ore sample when they are too small to use the "porcelain scratch" method.
With the scribing method, "every" silicate and calcerous rocks gives a white line which is coherent with the streak line (so far for what I've compared)
For oxyde and sulfure I don't have made much comparison so I can't tell for sure.
The fact that there is nothing on the web about that and that you haven't heard at all about it make me wonder a lot...
But anyway thanks a lot for your quick answer and have a nice weekend