In this chapter, text refers to a display that is the equivalent of a printed or typescript text. Markup includes information such as margins, background, page breaks, and font. Markup is essential in electronic texts so that the composer can express his text in a meaningful and comprehensible way. A kind of computer programming language that aims at formatting and printing the text as output. The other types are mainly used for printed products and need reformatting for other media.
Descriptive markup is able to survive the ever-changing world of software.
HTML 101 HTML is the descriptive markup used for documents published on the Internet through the World Wide Web. The original version of HTML was developed by in the early 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee. By combining it with the HyperText Transport Protocol and Uniform Resource Locators, it provided the basic structure needed to transform the Internet into the World Wide Web. So far HTML is used as a presentational tool rather than a structural or analytical one. It is the preferred markup language for personal collections rather than institutional or digital libraries on the web.