Re: [WSG] "Code" or "Markup"

[Kevin Futter]

Title: Re: [WSG] "Code" or "Markup"

In the document editing and proofing field (obviously related to the typesetting industry as its natural precursor in the workflow chain), markup is the word used to describe an editor’s or a proofreader’s copy editing symbols. Corrections are made by hand using a specialised symbol set and then handed off to the relevant person to implement – the document is said to be ‘marked up’ for correction.

Getting further off topic here ...

Cheers,
Kevin

On 3/12/04 12:29 AM, "Marilyn Langfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Well, speaking again as a print designer, markup is a typesetting industry term meaning applying styles (yes style tags) to text (and has been for a very long time).  

Used to be, you'd mark up text to send to the typographer. They'd apply that markup to text in whatever technology was employed at the time (hot metal to phototype).

With "desktop publishing" wiping out that industry, anyone who styles text (read content) is marking it up--whether in Word or BBedit, WordPress or Dreamweaver. I'd say that CSS is a markup language developed to separate markup from coding, Which is why CSS works together with XSLT to style XML. I don't know the history. Was CSS developed first for XSLT/XML and then applied to HTML? Or vice versa?

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