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MarkupLanguage is a language used to "markup" text for further processing.
MarkupLanguage is used to "tag" pieces of text both for defining their content as well as their presentation.
Today, the most famous MarkupLanguage is XML.
But there are many more...
- aft - Almost Free Text, a free form text formatting language, written in perl
- awf - Henry Spencer's Amazingly Workable Formatter, written in awk
- GnuTexInfo - Gnu standard documentation format
- IBM BookMaster - IBM mainframe text formatting system, also known as "Bookie"
- LaTex - Macros that extend and make TeX more usable.
- lout - Markup language to produce documents in text, HTML, SGML, and TeX.
- nroff, troff, groff - Unix derived text formatting languages
- SchemeScribe - Functional programming language for electronic documents
- Scribe - Early markup system extending RUNOFF, and influencing the development of SGML
- Script - IBM markup language, also called DCF, predecessor of Bookmaster?
- TeX - Donald Knuth's typesetting language
- TJ2 - Type Justifier - Early formatter running on a DEC PDP1
Lesser known ones include:
XML-flavored ones include:
- DocBook Semantic markup language for technical documentation
- SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
- XML Extensible Markup Language
- DITA Darwin Information Typing Architecture