SCRIPT was an
IBM text formatting language developed in the
1980s that used inline commands like .ce to center a piece of text or .sp 3 to add three lines of vertical space. It was a predecessor to the widely-deployed
PostScript known today, and the
LaTeX language.
GML (Generalized Markup Language) was created as a macro language that encapsulate set of SCRIPT commands. While SCRIPT was used to describe physical formatting, GML was used to describe logical structure of a document. The
Standard Generalized Markup Language,
SGML, is a descendant of GML.
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