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Our HOWTOs are released to the public in various formats: Plain
Text, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. Instead of having to write the same
HOWTO in all of these formats, just one HOWTO is written in a source
format which gets converted by computer into all of the others.
To get an idea of what a source format looks like, take a look at the
source file of a webpage (if you haven't already). You will see all
sorts of words in <angle brackets>. These are called tags.
These webpages (tags and all) are in html: Hypertext Markup
Language. The LDP uses formats something like this for its
documents.
The markup languages LDP uses meet the requirements of either
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) or XML.
The LDP now uses the following two flavors of sgml: LinuxDoc and
DocBook as well as the DocBook flavor of XML.
Interestingly, it turns out that html is still another flavor of sgml.
This mini-HOWTO is all about using the simple LinuxDoc flavor of sgml.
You may call it "LinuxDoc markup". It can be converted by computer to
html, plain text, postscript, pdf, and DocBook. It's a lot easier
than html or DocBook and you don't need a special editor for it as
it's easy to type in the tags (or use macros for them).
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