http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/history-of-markup-and-markup-languages Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Topic: History of markup and markup languages? en-US Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:24:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/history-of-markup-and-markup-languages#post-951 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:45:50 +0000 Kevin Hawkins 951@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>You might also check out <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Education/tei_bibliography.xml">A Bibliography of Publications related to the Text Encoding Initiative</a>. Its scope is broader than its name implies, including references to a number of early polemics about markup languages. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/history-of-markup-and-markup-languages#post-935 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:52:02 +0000 hopegreenberg 935@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>In addition to the contributions of Goldfarb, Mosher and Laurie referenced above in Hugh's link to some ancient history, it would be good to consider the impact of such early programs as WordStar and WordPerfect. They brought the concept of interweaving marks into text documents to control print output into the mini- and personal computer world. While the larger industries were entrenched in their use of IBM's Document Composition Facility/SCRIPT systems, and it took awhile for businesses to dislodge dedicated word processing systems like WANG, DEC, and others form their midst, these early personal computer word processing applications became an increasingly familiar model for many in the 1980s. Though later displaced by GUI-based programs, the concepts of dot commands (WordStar) and control-codes in WordPerfect (along with its all important Reveal Codes screen that could show you exactly which markup was in play where) made the conceptual leap to other kinds of markup systems easier.</p> <p>Tangentially, I wonder who would have found the move to HTML easier: those raised on page-layout systems (Page Maker, etc.) or those who used document-based systems like WordPerfect?</p> <p>And for an interesting read:<br /> "Remembering the Office of the Future: Word Processing and Office Automation before the Personal Computer" - A comprehensive history of early word processing concepts, hardware, software, and use. By Thomas Haigh, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 28:4 (October-December 2006):6-31. <a href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/Annals2006WP.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/Annals2006WP.pdf</a> </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/history-of-markup-and-markup-languages#post-934 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:17:09 +0000 staurtyeates 934@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>There is some decent coverage of this on wikipedia at: <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Markup_languages" rel="nofollow">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Markup_languages</a> </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/history-of-markup-and-markup-languages#post-933 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:12:10 +0000 cforster 933@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Assuming "markup languages" includes HTML:</p> <p>The first chapter of Jeremy Keith's <em>HTML5 for Web Designers</em> offers a readable and succinct description of the competing HTML standards from HTML 2.0 through HTML5. And, best of all, that chapter is free and available <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/">online</a>. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/history-of-markup-and-markup-languages#post-932 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:56:34 +0000 Hugh Cayless 932@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Some ancient history at: <a href="http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/index.htm</a></p> <p>For the TEI: <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/</a></p> <p>XML: <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People" rel="nofollow">http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People</a></p> <p>Hope that helps. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/history-of-markup-and-markup-languages#post-930 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:42:17 +0000 Dorothea Salo 930@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I've been asked to help someone find sources on the history of markup and the proliferation of markup languages. I can think of a few seminal texts to throw at them ("What Is Text, Really?" or Maler and el Andaloussi), but I don't know of any, er, metatexts of this nature.</p> <p>Does anyone else? </p>