Top Document: comp.text Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: GN2. Which do I need? Next Document: GN4. What is SGML? ODA? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge All formatters need to distinguish the text to be printed from instructions about how to print; the latter is called markup. Procedural markup tells the software what to do (space down, invoke a macro); generic markup describes the thing to be printed (heading, cross-reference, etc.) Troff and TeX are examples of procedural markups; ODA and SGML prescribe rules for generic languages; and good macro packages for troff or TeX make them, more-or-less, generic markup languages. Many of the word processing packages (such as Word or Wordstar) can only do procedural markup - the software is told by the user "how to display it", rather than "what this is" - and leaving the visual representation to preprogrammed rule sets (ie: macros) - see GN5. User Contributions:Top Document: comp.text Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: GN2. Which do I need? Next Document: GN4. What is SGML? ODA? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: textfaq@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Text FAQ commentary reception)
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