General Information
Basic general information about the markup languages: creator, version, etc.
| Language | Creator | First public release date | Editor | Viewer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computable Document Format | Wolfram Research | 2010 | Mathematica | CDF Player |
| Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) | IBM, OASIS | 2005 | Text/XML editor | Output to HTML, PDF, CHM, javadoc, others. |
| DocBook | The Davenport Group, OASIS | 1992 | XML editor | Output to HTML, PDF, CHM, javadoc, others. |
| Encoded Archival Description (EAD) | Berkeley Project | 1998 | Text editor | Web browser |
| Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) | W3C | 2000 (January 26) | Text/XML editor, HTML editor | Web browser |
| HyperText Markup Language (HTML) | Tim Berners-Lee | 1993 | Text editor, HTML editor | Web browser |
| LilyPond | Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen | 1996 | Text editor, Scorewriter | Output to DVI, PDF, PostScript, PNG, others. |
| Maker Interchange Format (MIF) | Frame Technology acquired by Adobe Systems in 1995 | 1986 | Text editor, FrameMaker | FrameMaker |
| Markdown | John Gruber and Aaron Swartz | 2004 | Text editor, E-mail client | Web browser (XHTML or HTML output), preview in gedit-markdown-plugin |
| Math Markup Language (MathML) | W3C | 1999 (July) | Text/XML editor, TeX converter | Web browser, Word processor |
| Music Extensible Markup Language (MusicXML) | Recordare | 2002 | Scorewriter | Scorewriter |
| Office Open XML (OOXML) | Ecma International, ISO/IEC | 2006 | Office suite | Office suite |
| OpenDocument Format (ODF) | OASIS, ISO/IEC | 2005 | Office suite | Office suite |
| Open Mathematical Documents (OMDoc) | Michael Kohlhase | 2000 | Text/XML editor | Output to XHTML+MathML, TeX, others. |
| reStructuredText | David_Goodger | 2001 | Text editor | Output to HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Unix man pages, ODT, S5 (HTML Slide Shows), XML, others. |
| Rich Text Format (RTF) | Microsoft | 1987 | Text editor, Word processor | Word processor |
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) | W3C | 2004 | Vector graphics editor | Web browser, etc. |
| Script | IBM | 1968 | Text editor | GDDM, AFP viewer |
| TeX | Donald Knuth | 1978 | Text editor | DVI or Portable Document Format (PDF) converter |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | Text Encoding Initiative Consortium | 1990 | Text/XML editor | Web Browser (using XHTML), PDF, Word Processor (using ODF) or EPUB |
| troff (typesetter runoff), groff (GNU runoff) | Joe Ossanna | 1973 | Text editor | groffer, or output to PostScript |
| Wireless Markup Language (WML) | WAP Forum | 1999 | Text/XML editor | Microbrowser |
| Language | Creator | First public release date | Editor | Viewer |
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