Comparison of document markup languages

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of

document markup languages
. Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information.

General information

See also: Lightweight markup language

Basic general information about the markup languages: creator, version, etc.

Language First public release date Creator Editor Viewer
AsciiDoc 2002 Stuart Rackham Text editor Output to
roff, and PostScript
)
Computable Document Format 2010 Wolfram Research
Mathematica
CDF Player
; CDF format can also be embedded in web pages viewable with conventional browsers.
Creole 2007 Text editor Output to HTML, RTF, LaTeX, others; renderers for MFC, others.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) 2005 IBM, OASIS Text/XML editor Output to
PDF, CHM, javadoc
, others.
DocBook 1992 The Davenport Group, OASIS XML editor Output to
PDF, CHM, javadoc
, others.
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 1998 Berkeley Project Text editor Web browser
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) 2000 (January 26)
W3C
 Text/XML editor, HTML editor Web browser
Halibut 1999 Simon Tatham Text editor Output to ASCII text,
PDF, PostScript, Unix man pages, GNU Info, Windows Help (.CHM files)
, Windows WinHelp (old .HLP files)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 1993 Tim Berners-Lee Text editor, HTML editor Web browser
LilyPond
 1996
Jan Nieuwenhuizen
 Text editor, Scorewriter Output to
PNG
, others.
Maker Interchange Format (MIF)
 1986
Adobe Systems
in 1995
FrameMaker
FrameMaker
MakeDoc 2000 Carl Sassenrath Text editor Web browser (XHTML or HTML output)
Markdown 2004 John Gruber and Aaron Swartz
E-mail client
 Web browser (XHTML or HTML output), preview in gedit-markdown-plugin
Math Markup Language (MathML) 1999 (July)
W3C
 Text/XML editor, TeX converter Web browser, Word processor
The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) 1999 The MEI Community XML editor Verovio
Music Extensible Markup Language (MusicXML) 2002 Recordare Scorewriter Scorewriter
Office Open XML (OOXML) 2006 Ecma International, ISO/IEC
Office suite
Office suite
OpenDocument Format (ODF) 2005 OASIS, ISO/IEC
Office suite
Office suite
Open Mathematical Documents (OMDoc) 2000 Michael Kohlhase Text/XML editor[1] Output to XHTML+MathML, TeX, others.
Org-mode 2003 Org-mode project Emacs, text editor
PDF, DocBook, FreeMind, OpenDocument Format (ODF)
, others.
reStructuredText 2001[2] David Goodger Text editor Output to
PDF, Unix man pages, ODT, S5 (HTML Slide Shows), XML
, others.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
 2004
W3C
Vector graphics editor
 Web browser, etc.
Script
GML 		1968
1971 		IBM Text editor GDDM,
AFP
viewer
TeX
LaTeX 		1978
1984 		Donald Knuth
Leslie Lamport 		Text editor
Portable Document Format (PDF)
converter
Texinfo 1986 Richard Stallman Text editor output to
Portable Document Format (PDF), HTML, DocBook
, others.
TeXmacs format
 1998 Joris van der Hoeven Text editor/TeXmacs editor
Mathml
Textile 2002[3] Dean Allen Text editor Web browser (XHTML or HTML output), reference and tester (uses latest PHP-Textile version 3.5.5)
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 1990 Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Text/XML editor
Word Processor (using ODF) or EPUB
troff (typesetter runoff), groff (GNU runoff) 1973 Joe Ossanna Text editor groffer, or output to PostScript
Wireless Markup Language (WML) 1999
WAP Forum
 Text/XML editor Mobile browser
Language First public release date Creator Editor Viewer

Note: While Rich Text Format (RTF) is human readable, it is not considered to be a markup language and is thus excluded from the table.

Characteristics

Some characteristics of the markup languages.[definition needed]

Language Major purpose Based on Markup type Structural markup Presentational markup[4]
Open format
AsciiDoc Multi-purpose Tag Yes Yes Yes
Computable Document Format Interactive technical documents, infographics, blogs[5] Wolfram Language Tag Yes Yes No
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical documents XML Tag Yes Yes[6] Yes
DocBook Technical documents SGML / XML Tag Yes Yes[7] Yes
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding aids XML Tag Yes No
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) Hypertext documents XML Tag Yes Yes[8] Yes
FictionBook
 Multi-purpose XML Tag Yes Yes Yes
Halibut Technical documents Control code Yes Yes Yes
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Hypertext documents SGML Tag Yes Yes[9] Yes
Lilypond
Music notation
 Control code Yes Yes
Maker Interchange Format (MIF)
 Technical documents Tag Yes Yes
Markdown Formatted Technical documents,
E-mail
 Text E-mail conventions Tag Yes Yes Yes
Math Markup Language (MathML) Mathematical documents XML Tag Yes Yes[10]
The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
Music notation
 XML Tag Yes Yes
Music Extensible Markup Language (MusicXML)
Music notation
 XML Tag Yes Yes Yes
Office Open XML (OOXML) Multi-purpose XML / ZIP Tag Yes Yes Yes
OpenDocument Format (ODF) Multi-purpose XML / ZIP Tag Yes Yes Yes
Open Mathematical Document (OMDoc) Mathematical documents XML Tag Yes[11] Yes[12]
Org-mode Multi-purpose (notes, project management, publishing, literate programming) Text outliner Tag Yes Yes
reStructuredText Technical and Multi-purpose documents[13] Structured Text and Setext Tag Yes Yes[14] Yes
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
 2D Vector graphics XML Tag Yes Yes Yes
Script
GML 		Multi-purpose
RUNOFF
 Control code Yes Yes
TeX
LaTeX
Academic documents
Multi-purpose[15]
 Control code Yes Yes
Texinfo Technical documents TeX, Scribe Control code Yes Yes
TeXmacs format
 Academic documents tree Tag Yes Yes
Textile Hypertext documents AsciiDoc (based on some similarities and dates of release) Tag Yes Yes Yes
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Academic, linguistic, literary
and technical documents 		SGML / XML Tag Yes No
troff (typesetter runoff), groff (GNU runoff) Technical documents
RUNOFF
 Control code Yes Yes
Wireless Markup Language (WML) Hypertext documents XML Tag Yes Yes
Language Major purpose Based on Markup type Structural markup Presentational markup
Open format

Notes

  1. ^ An Emacs mode and a Mozilla extension are available.
  2. ^ "An Introduction to reStructuredText". docutils.sourceforge.net. 2 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Textism › Tools › Textile". 26 December 2002. Archived from the original on 26 December 2002.
  4. CSS
    is used as a presentation layer.
  5. ^ Uses and Examples of the Computable Document Format (CDF), Wolfram.com.
  6. ^ Includes basic presentational content and SVG and MathML markup, officially supported in version 1.3. In select XML editors and management systems, the images and content can be viewed as rendered, through CSS mostly.
  7. ^ Presentational content is supported through SVG and MathML markup. In select XML editors, the images can be viewed as rendered.
  8. ^ Presentational markup is deprecated as of XHTML 1.0 and no longer allowed as of XHTML 1.1
  9. ^ Presentational markup is deprecated as of HTML 4.0
  10. ^ MathML comes in two mark-up syntaxes: a semantic and a presentational.
  11. ^ uses Content MathML, OpenMath or other formats for formulae
  12. ^ Exact presentation of symbols can be specified in OMDoc; these specifications are used when transforming OMDoc to a presentational format.
  13. ^ "An Introduction to reStructuredText". docutils.sourceforge.net. 2 April 2022.
  14. ^ uses CSS
  15. ^ While Donald Knuth wrote TeX for Academic publications and Leslie Lamport wrote LaTeX for similar purpose, packages are available from Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) for nonacademic purposes, e.g., writing scripts.

See also

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