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Comparison of document markup languages

Comparison of document markup languages

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of document markup languages. Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information.

General information

See also: Lightweight markup language

Basic general information about the markup languages: creator, version, etc.

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Note: While Rich Text Format (RTF) is human readable, it is not considered to be a markup language and is thus excluded from the table.

Characteristics

Some characteristics of the markup languages. [definition needed]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    An Emacs mode and a Mozilla extension are available.
  2. [2]
    "An Introduction to reStructuredText". docutils.sourceforge.net. 2 April 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Textism › Tools › Textile". 26 December 2002. Archived from the original on 26 December 2002.
  4. [4]
    Many markup languages have purposely avoided presentational markups. For markup languages based on SGML and XML, CSS is used as a presentation layer.
  5. [5]
    Uses and Examples of the Computable Document Format (CDF), Wolfram.com.
  6. [6]
    Includes basic presentational content and SVG and MathML markup, officially supported in version 1.3. In select XML editors and management systems, the images and content can be viewed as rendered, through CSS mostly.
  7. [7]
    Presentational content is supported through SVG and MathML markup. In select XML editors, the images can be viewed as rendered.
  8. [8]
    Presentational markup is deprecated as of XHTML 1.0 and no longer allowed as of XHTML 1.1
  9. [9]
    Presentational markup is deprecated as of HTML 4.0
  10. [10]
    MathML comes in two mark-up syntaxes: a semantic and a presentational.
  11. [11]
    uses Content MathML, OpenMath or other formats for formulae
  12. [12]
    Exact presentation of symbols can be specified in OMDoc; these specifications are used when transforming OMDoc to a presentational format.
  13. [13]
    "An Introduction to reStructuredText". docutils.sourceforge.net. 2 April 2022.
  14. [14]
    uses CSS
  15. [15]
    While Donald Knuth wrote TeX for Academic publications and Leslie Lamport wrote LaTeX for similar purpose, packages are available from Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) for nonacademic purposes, e.g., writing scripts.

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