[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: Text Markup Part II

• From: David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>
• To: "liam@w3.org" <liam@w3.org>
• Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:36:23 -0500

Not to forget nroff/troff then RTF. ( then postscript, word etc etc ... )
But as we go back that far its mostly markup primarily concerned with typesetting not semantics.
Somewhere along the line (as far as I can tell). Semantic markup and typesetting/publishing markup started to converge. 



Sent from my iPad (excuse the terseness) 
David A Lee
dlee@calldei.com


On Jan 20, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 20:16 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> On 20/01/12 12:02, David Lee wrote:
>> [...]
>>> * Was there a slow transition of adding markup then some kind of "Ah Ha!"
>>> moment where people realized they needed/should wrap the whole thing in a
>>> tag ?
>> 
>> I don't think there was a specific road-to-Damascus moment, but the 
>> development of Script--GML--SGML and the start-tag...end-tag very 
>> roughly paralleled the development of TeX (grouping) and LaTeX with its 
>> \begin...\end markers.
> 
> LaTeX was of course based on the earlier Scribe formatter, which used
> @begin...@end.
> 
> Liam
> 
> -- 
> Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
> Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________________________________
> 
> XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS
> to support XML implementation and development. To minimize
> spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting.
> 
> [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/
> Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org
> subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org
> List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
> List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php

• References:
  • Text Markup Part II
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>
  • Re: Text Markup Part II
    • From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
  • Re: Text Markup Part II
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>