By Tibs / Tony Ibbs
This version for the Cambridge Write The Docs meetup, Feb 2018
Written using reStructuredText.
Converted to PDF slides using pandoc and beamer.
Source and extended notes at https://github.com/tibs/markup-history
- 1960s TYPSET and RUNOFF, GML
- 1970s roff, runoff, nroff/troff,
$\text{\TeX}$ in SAIL - 1980s Scribe,
$\text{\TeX}$ in WEB/Pascal,$\text{\LaTeX}$ , SGML, TEI - 1990s groff, HTML, setext, Docbook, WikiWikiWeb, StructuredText, XML
- 2000s reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, markdown
Presentational or Semantic
...but also lightweight, and maybe programmable
.LINE LENGTH 60
.LEFT MARGIN 0
.PARAGRAPH 5
Call us on our toll free number
.CENTER
1-800-555-5555
and we will respond as soon as convenient.<td> The Implication of SGML for the Preparation of Scientific
Publications
<au> Joan M. Smith
<ad> <al> National Computing Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester M1 7ED
<ab> The &SGML (SGML) is a draft international standard for publishing.
...
<h1>Introduction
<p> The official title of SGML, currently, is ISO/DIS 8879,
<ci> Information Processing &end Text and Office Systems &end &SGML (SGML)
</ci>. <ref> ISO/DIS 8879 <ci> Information Processing &end Text and Office
Systems &end &SGML (SGML). ISO, Geneva (1985). </ref>
...
<p>There are several points worthy of note here:
<ul>
<li> the normal publishing delay with ISO standards...
...
</ul>DTD for a list:
and such a list:
"XML is an application profile of SGML"
.TH CORRUPT 1
.SH NAME
corrupt \- modify files by randomly changing bits
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B corrupt
[\fB\-n\fR \fIBITS\fR]
[\fB\-\-bits\fR \fIBITS\fR]
.IR file ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B corrupt
modifies files by toggling a randomly chosen bit.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-n ", " \-\-bits =\fIBITS\fR
Set the number of bits to modify. Default is one bit...INCLUDE mission-statement-strings.mom
.TITLE "\*[Groff-Mission-Statement]
.SUBTITLE "\*[2014]
.INCLUDE mission-statement-style.mom
.PP
As the most widely deployed implementation of troff in use today,
groff holds an important place in the Unix universe. Frequently
and erroneously dismissed as a legacy program for formatting
Unix manuals (manpages), groff is in fact a sophisticated system
for producing high-quality typeset material, from business
correspondence to complex, technical reports and plate-ready books.
\*[BU3]With an impressive record for backward compatibility, it
continues to evolve and play a leading role in the development of
free typesetting software.\name{Name Redacted} wrote:
\beginletter
Thoughts on ``Why I like children's books'':
\beginlist
\item{\blob} They aren't afraid to show a sense of wonder.
\item{\blob} They aren't `duty bound' to include love interest for the
sake of it.
\item{\blob} They are rarely cynical, rarely bitter---but the best do
not avoid tragedy and truth.
\item{\blob} They are willing to teach the simple lessons of being
human---which adult books so often scorn, but which we all need to
learn and relearn.
\endlist\begin{center}
\rule{5in}{0.1mm}
\end{center}
\section*{Captain Competent strikes again}
The superhero is a familiar concept in comics, science
fiction and many other fields. However, I am more
interested in what might be called `the competent
hero'. This is a subtler form of protagonist---a
person who has attained {\em competence} in their
daily life.@Heading(The Beginning)
@Begin(Quotation)
Let's start at the very beginning, a @i(very good
place) to start
@End(Quotation)which can also be written:
@Heading(The Beginning)
@(Quotation
Let's start at the very beginning, a @i(very good
place) to start
)<lg type="sestina">
<lg type="sestet" rhyme="ababab">
<l>I saw my soul at rest upon a
<rhyme label="a" xml:id="A">day</rhyme></l>
<l>As a bird sleeping in the nest of
<rhyme label="b" xml:id="B">night</rhyme>,</l>
<l>Among soft leaves that give the starlight
<rhyme label="a" xml:id="C">way</rhyme></l>
<l>To touch its wings but not its eyes with
<rhyme label="b" xml:id="D">light</rhyme>;</l>
<l>So that it knew as one in visions
<rhyme label="a" xml:id="E">may</rhyme>,</l>
<l>And knew not as men waking, of
<rhyme label="b" xml:id="F">delight</rhyme>.</l>
</lg><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is a title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello world!</p>
</body>
</html><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Simplified DocBook XML V1.0//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/1.0/sdocbook.dtd">
<article>
<title>DocBook Tutorial</title>
<articleinfo>
<author>
<firstname>Adrian</firstname> <surname>Giurca</surname>
</author>
<date>April 5, 2005</date>
</articleinfo>
<section>
<title>What is DocBook ?</title>
<para>DocBook is an SGML dialect developed by O'Reilly and HaL
Computer Systems in 1991.</para>
</section>
</article>This is the title. There can be only one.
=========================================
Body text must be indented by two spaces.
A subheading
------------
**Bold words** and ~italic~ are supported. _Underlined_words_ are
also supported. `Backquoted words` are not touched.
> This text will be represented using a monospaced font.
* This text will have a bullet mark before it.
.. Two dots introduce text that can be ignored.
.. Two dots alone mean the logical end of text.
..Paragraphs are not indented.
* This is a list item
** This is a sub-list item
Indented text is monospaced.
We have ''emphasis'', '''bold''', '''''bold italic''''', and a
LinkToAnotherPage.
But we can A''''''voidMakingAWikiLink.
No HTML, tables, headers, maths, scripts.
No links within a page.This is a heading
This is a paragraph. Body text is indented.
- This is a list item. Words can be *emphasized*, _underlined_,
**strong** or 'inline' - yes, that's using single quotes [1].
o This is a list item as well.
This is a sub-heading
Sub-section body text is indented even further. This
indented body text makes the sub-heading a heading.
.. [1] Or we could use ``backquotes``.This is a heading
=================
This is a paragraph. Body text is not indented.
- This is a list item. Words can be *emphasized*, **strong** or
``teletype`` - yes, that's paired backquotes [1]_.
- This is a list item as well.
This is more of the second list item. It is indented appropriately.
This is a sub-heading
---------------------
Sub-section body text is not indented either.
.. [1] Note the indentation inside the list item.= This is a title heading
This is a paragraph. Body text is not indented.
- This is a list item. Words can be _italic_, *bold* or +mono+ - yes,
that's paired plus-signs.
- This is a list item as well.
+
This is more of the second list item. It is "`joined on`" by the
`+`.footnote:[Note the quotation marks around _joined on_.]
== This is a sub-heading
Sub-section body text is not indented either.# This is a heading
This is a paragraph. Body text is not indented.
- This is a list item. Words can be *emphasized*, **strong** or
`inline` - that's single backquotes.
- This is a list item as well.
This is more of the second list item. Its first line must be
indented by 4 spaces or a tab.
## This is a sub-heading
Sub-section body text is not indented either.
(No footnotes. But <tt>HTML</tt> is allowed.)- 1960s TYPSET and RUNOFF, GML
- 1970s roff, runoff, nroff/troff,
$\text{\TeX}$ in SAIL - 1980s Scribe,
$\text{\TeX}$ in WEB/Pascal,$\text{\LaTeX}$ , SGML, TEI - 1990s groff, HTML, setext, Docbook, WikiWikiWeb, StructuredText, XML
- 2000s reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, markdown
Written using reStructuredText.
Converted to PDF slides using pandoc and beamer.
Source and extended notes at https://github.com/tibs/markup-history