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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: SGML: a different kind of markup (Was: Why learn Tex?)
Keywords: SGML, markup languages, troff, TeX, GenCode, typesetting
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Date: 4 Mar 90 04:58:13 GMT
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|SGML is not a "markup language" in the same sense as troff and TeX
|are:  there is historical justification for the use of the term
|"markup" in SGML, but it *does* cause much confusion.

Coombs, in his CACM article on markup languages of about two years ago
calls these descriptive markup and procedural markup respectively.

I wish I had the reference online. I also wish there was a standard for
machine readable references and that journals would use this standard
so that we could run our light pens over the strips and thousands of
readers worldwide would not have to key these in manually.