MarkupLanguage

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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...

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* awf - Henry Spencer's Amazingly Workable Formatter, written in awk

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* awf - Henry Spencer's Amazingly Workable Formatter, written in awk
* bbfmt BlackBeard formatter
* DITA Darwin Information Typing Architecture
* DocBook Semantic markup language for technical documentation

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* IBM BookMaster - IBM mainframe text formatting system, also known as "Bookie"

* BookMaster - IBM mainframe text formatting system, also known as "Bookie"

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* Skribe - Open source markup language based on Scheme

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* Skribe - Open source markup language based on Scheme

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* WSFormat? (part of the WriteAndSet word processing package)
* XML Extensible Markup Language

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Lesser known ones include:
* bbfmt BlackBeard formatter
* WSFormat? (part of the WriteAndSet word processing package)

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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

[Other Families]

A MarkupLanguage is a language used to "markup" text for further processing.

Markup Language Family:

[About Markup Language]

aft - Almost Free Text, a free form text formatting language, written in perl
AsciiDoc - Open source text format which is user customizable and easily converted to other formats
awf - Henry Spencer's Amazingly Workable Formatter, written in awk
bbfmt BlackBeard formatter
DITA Darwin Information Typing Architecture
DocBook Semantic markup language for technical documentation
GML - A macro package for IBM's Script/VS
GnuTexInfo - Gnu standard documentation format
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.
Markdown - Text-to-HTML conversion tool
nroff, troff, groff - Unix derived text formatting languages
Scribe - Early markup system extending RUNOFF, and influencing the development of SGML
Script - IBM markup language, also called DCF, predecessor of Bookmaster?
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
Skribe - Open source markup language based on Scheme
TeX - Donald Knuth's typesetting language
TJ2 - Type Justifier - Early formatter running on a DEC PDP1
Txt2Tags - Txt2tags reads a text file with minimal markup and converts to various formats
WSFormat? (part of the WriteAndSet word processing package)
XML Extensible Markup Language

a variety of [lightweight markup languages], such as the TextFormattingRules used on this wiki.

Conversion Tools: Tools for converting from one markup format to another

Pandoc - Open source format converter, written in Haskell