Ibm Generalized Markup Language

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Generalized Markup Language (GML) is a set of macros that implement intent-based markup tags for the IBM text formatter, "SCRIPT". SCRIPT is the main component of IBM's Document Composition Facility (DCF). A starter set of tags in GML is provided with the DCF product.

GML simplifies the description of a document in terms of its format, organization structure, content parts and their relationship, and other properties. GML markup (or tags) describes such parts as chapters, important sections, and less important sections (by specifying heading levels), paragraphs, lists, tables, and so forth.

GML frees document creators from specific document formatting concerns such as font specification, line spacing, and page layout required by Script. Using GML, a document is marked up with tags that define what the text is, in terms of paragraphs, headers, lists, tables, and so forth. The document can then be automatically formatted for various devices simply by specifying a profile for the device. For example, it is possible to format a document for a laser printer or a line (dot matrix) printer or for a screen simply by specifying a profile for the device without changing the document itself.

A later and more extensive set of tags is provided by IBM's BookMaster product.

GML preceded and was one of the two sources that were used as the basis for the industry-developed Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), today's strategic set of rules for creating any structured document description language. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) was initially a streamlined and simplified development of SGML, but has outgrown its parent in terms of worldwide acceptance and support.

A GML script example

h1.Chapter 1: Introduction

p.GML supported hierarchical containers, such as

li.Ordered lists (like this one),

li.Unordered lists, and

li.Definition lists

eol.

as well as simple structures.

p.Markup minimization (later generalized and formalized in SGML),

allowed the end-tags to be omitted for the "h1" and "p" elements.

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A word processor (more formally known as document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of printable material.
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Script may refer to:

Script (performing arts), the dialogue and instructions for a play, musical or other performance work
Script (recorded media), the dialogue and instructions for a film or television programme

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document (noun) is a bounded physical representation of body of information designed with the capacity (and usually intent) to communicate. A document may manifest symbolic, diagrammatic or sensory-representational information.
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character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

An example of a character is a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark.
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A paragraph is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea, or the words of an author. The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line and ending without running to the next passage.
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A page header or simply header in typography is that material which is separated from the main body of text and appears at the top of a printed page. Word processing programs usually provide for the creation and maintenance of page headers, which are often the same from page
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Device may refer to:

Computing and electronics

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Peripheral device, any device attached to a computer that expands its functionality
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laser printer is a common type of computer printer that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics on plain paper. Like photocopiers, laser printers employ a xerographic printing process but differ from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning
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dot matrix printer or impact matrix printer refers to a type of computer printer with a print head that runs back and forth on the page and prints by impact, striking an ink-soaked cloth ribbon against the paper, much like a typewriter.
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Standard Generalized Markup Language

File extension: none
MIME type: application/sgml, text/sgml
Uniform Type Identifier: public.xml
Type of format: metalanguage
Extended from: GML
Extended to: HTML, XML
Standard(s): ISO 8879
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Document Structure Description, or DSD, is a schema language for XML, that is, a language for describing valid XML documents. It's an alternative to DTD or the W3C XML Schema.

An example of DSD in its simplest form:

<dsd xmlns="http://www.brics.dk/DSD/2.
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Extensible Markup Language

File extension: .xml
MIME type: application/xml, text/xml (deprecated)
Uniform Type Identifier: public.xml
Developed by: World Wide Web Consortium
Type of format: Markup language
Extended from: SGML
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HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

File extension: .html, .htm
MIME type: text/html
Type code: TEXT
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