On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Henry van Eyken wrote:
> If markup languages are to gain broad acceptance then it is essential that
> thought be given to how to communicate with plain folk. Hence my question, is
> there a simple, concise overview available - a roadmap to show the lay of the
> land?
Charles Goldfarb, the father of markup languages and the 'G' in GML and
SGML, has some historical stuff on GML and SGML at:
http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/index.htm
Jon Bosak, one of the authors of the XML spec and possibly still a member
of this list, has some personal recollections on the birth of XML at:
http://java.sun.com/xml/birth_of_xml.html
I'm not sure of good sources of information on the birth of TeX, HTML, and
roff on the Web, but I know of several good books on these topics. Donald
Knuth has covered TeX exhaustively in _The TeXBook_ and _Digital
Typography_. Tim Berners-Lee talks about HTML in _Weaving the Web_. I
don't know of an authoritative book that describes the story of roff and
its successors, but Peter Salus's <i>A Quarter Century of UNIX</i> talks
about it briefly. (The book I'm currently writing has some anecdotes
about the BSD version of troff and about groff.)
-Eugene
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