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* Framemaker *.fm
* Framemaker *.fm


=== Specialized markup formats ===
=== Specialized markup formats for the Internet ===
These are usually combined within other formats


* MathML
These are usually combined within other formats, e.g. XHTML.
* Vector Graphics, such as SVG and WML
Most important formats are:


* Display of mathematical formula: [[MathML]]
* Vector Graphics: [[SVG]] (or the defunct Microsoft WML format)
* Multimedia sequencing: [[SMIL]]
* Linking: [[XLink]] (this is not supported in XHTML 2)
* Forms: [[XForms]]
* Voice markup: [[VoiceML]]
For now, integration of various vocabularies into main-stream web pages is not obvious. Only standards-aware browsers like Firefox can handle for instance XHTML + SVG + MathML. In addition, editing is not always easy since there are no official combined DTD's available, although a general standard for this ([http://www.w3.org/TR/CDR/ Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0]) is almost ready.


== Hardware ==
== Hardware ==

Revision as of 11:37, 2 December 2006

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Definition

Document standards can be defined in terms of:

  • Document file formats, i.e. text or binary formats for storing documents an storage media.
  • Content structure, usually an XML application

Document file formats

There are a lot of these, see Wikipedia's document file format article or the full List of file formats

See also: e-book formats

Markup languages that separate content from style

These are somewhat human readable

  • Docbook (XML or SGML) was originally intented for authoring technical documents but can be used for almost any kind of document.
  • DITA
  • XHTML strict
  • TEX and related languages like Latex

Messy markup languages

These markup content, style and other things together and are not really human readable.

Binary file formats

Not human readable

  • Microsoft *.doc
  • Framemaker *.fm

Specialized markup formats for the Internet

These are usually combined within other formats, e.g. XHTML. Most important formats are:

  • Display of mathematical formula: MathML
  • Vector Graphics: SVG (or the defunct Microsoft WML format)
  • Multimedia sequencing: SMIL
  • Linking: XLink (this is not supported in XHTML 2)
  • Forms: XForms
  • Voice markup: VoiceML

For now, integration of various vocabularies into main-stream web pages is not obvious. Only standards-aware browsers like Firefox can handle for instance XHTML + SVG + MathML. In addition, editing is not always easy since there are no official combined DTD's available, although a general standard for this (Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0) is almost ready.

Hardware

  • Paper
  • All sorts of computers with a monitor
  • Mobile devices
  • Refeshable electronic paper


Links

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