• A set of macros that implements intent-based (procedural) markup tags for the IBM text formatter, SCRIPT, which is the main component of IBM’s Document Composition Facility (DCF). Using GML, a document is marked up with tags that define what the text is, in terms of headers, paragraphs, lists, tables, and so forth. The document can then be formatted for various devices. For example, it is possible to format a document for a screen or a printer by specifying a profile for the device, without changing the document itself. The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), an ISO-standard technology for defining generalized markup languages for documents, is descended from GML. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) was initially a streamlined and simplified development of SGML. GML was developed in 1969 and the early 1970s by Charles Goldfarb, Edward Mosher, and Raymond Lorie (whose surname initials were used by Goldfarb to make up the term “GML”). ← Wikipedia

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