Talk:Comparison of document markup languages

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Latest comment: 19 years ago by 193.86.75.124 in topic Origin of RTF

I think DocBook does not have presentational markup. Not more than XHTML does. There are tags <emphasis> and <emphasis role="strong">, but that's just as much as <em> and <strong> in XHTML. 62.176.30.2 19:02, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

*roff as a markup language

What about roff, troff, nroff, groff, etc.? Where do they fit in in this scheme?

OpenDocument

Shouldn’t OpenDocument be included here? —Masatran 18:06, 16 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

OpenDocument is XML-based, but it's not a markup language in the same way these others (including *roff) are; it's not designed to be written by hand in a text editor, but to be the file format for a WYSIWYG word processor. Most would agree that it's a file format more than a markup language of its own.

Lout?

What about Lout? --Mecanismo 19:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

Origin of RTF

Isn't RTF based on TeX? At least the syntax is clearly isnpired on it. I don't have any references, though. --193.86.75.124 11:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

MIF information wrong

MIF was available with the first release of FrameMaker in 1986, and Adobe did NOT invent it. It was developed by Frame Technology Corporation which also produced FrameMaker. Adobe acquired Frame Technology in 1995. This is documented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framemaker. A better history is found at http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmhist00.html