[rescue] [off-topic] What was this markup language?

[Justin Haynes]

http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04623260 :
OpenVMS DIGITAL Standard Runoff Reference Manual
Order Number: AAbPS6HAbTE
May 1993
This manual documents the DIGITAL Standard Runoff (DSR) textformatting
utility.


Chapter 2 DSR Commands lists commands all starting with '.'


On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Carl R. Friend <crfriend at rcn.com> wrote:

> On 12/08/2015 08:14 AM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>
>> I have dim memories of making a little money editing term papers on a
>> DEC-20
>> in the early 1980s. It seems to me I used some kind of markup language
>> where
>> the directives started with a "." character in the first column of the
>> line. I was able to do indenting and alignment and other text-processing
>> stuff to
>> make the papers print out nicely.
>>
>
>    That'd likely be DSR -- "Digital Standard RUNOFF".
>
>    Cheers!
>
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