List of Document Markup Languages - Lesser-known Document Markup Languages

Lesser-known Document Markup Languages

(including some lightweight markup languages)

  • ABC music notation - markup language for music scores in pure text.
  • Amigaguide
  • Chemical Markup Language (CML)
  • Compact HyperText Markup Language (C-HTML) – used for some mobile phones.
  • Computable Document Format - used for interactive technical documents.
  • ConTeXt – a modular, structured formatting language based on TeX.
  • Crossmark – common markup with macros.
  • Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
  • DocBook – format for technical (but not only) manuals and documentation.
  • eLML – eLesson Markup Language: create eLearning content
  • Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
  • Enriched text – for formatting e-mail text.
  • Generalized Markup Language (GML)
  • Guide Markup Language (GuideML) – used by the Hitchhiker's Guide site.
  • Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) – designed for smartphones and handheld computers.
  • Help Markup Language (HelpML)
  • Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime)
  • HyperTeX – for including hyperlinks in TeX (and LaTeX) documents.
  • Information Presentation Facility (IPF) – is a system for presenting online help and hypertext on IBM OS/2 systems. It is also the default help file format used by the cross-platform fpGUI Toolkit project.
  • LilyPond – a system for music notation.
  • LinuxDoc – used by the Linux Documentation Project.
  • Lout – a document formatting functional programming language, similar in style to LaTeX.
  • Maker Interchange Format (MIF)
  • Markdown - simple plaintext markup popular as language of blog/cms posts and comments, multiple implementations, used to generate HTML.
  • Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML)
  • Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
  • Music Extensible Markup Language (MusicXML)
  • Open Mathematical Documents (OMDoc)
  • OpenMath – a markup language for mathematical formulae which can complement MathML.
  • Plain Old Documentation (POD) – a simple, platform-independent documentation tool for Perl.
  • Xupl - a C-style equivalent to XML.
  • Remote Telescope Markup Language (RTML)
  • reStructuredText (reSt) - plaintext platform-independent markup used as Python libraries documentation tool, multiple output formats (HTML, LaTeX, ODT, EPUB, ...)
  • Retail Template Markup Language (RTML) – e-commerce language which is based on LisP.
  • Revisable-Form Text (RFT) – part of IBM's Document Content Architecture to allow transfer of formatted documents to other systems.
  • S1000D – international specification for technical documentation related to commercial or military; aerospace, sea or land; vehicles or equipment.
  • Scribe – Brian Reid's seminal markup language
  • Script – Early IBM markup language on which GML is built.
  • SKiCal - a machine-readable format for the interchange of enhanced yellow-page directory listings.
  • Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) – Guidelines for text encoding in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics.
  • Texinfo – GNU documentation format.
  • troff (typesetter runoff), groff (GNU runoff)
  • Wikitext – used in Wikipedia, MediaWiki and other Wiki installations.
  • Wireless Markup Language (WML), Wireless TV Markup Language (WTVML)
  • Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) XML based user interface markup language
  • Z Format – an open, document and typesetting language inspired by TeX.

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