The noun markup is derived from the traditional publishing practice called "marking up" a manuscript, which … See more

There are three main general categories of electronic markup, articulated in Coombs, Renear, and DeRose (1987), and Bray (2003).
The kind of markup used by traditional word-proce… See more

The first well-known public presentation of markup languages in computer text processing was made by William W. Tunnicliffe at a conference in 1967, although he preferred to call it generic coding. It can be seen as … See more