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Re: Old School Word Processing (Score:2)

by davorg (18) <dave@dave.org.uk> on 2003.11.28 5:31 (#26130) Homepage Journal

In 1986/7 I did my sandwich year working for IBM. The department that I was in was responsible for producing the text that was used in new product announcements for PC products (that was the year that the PS/2 range was released).

We had a single document for each product from which we extracted the relevant parts to make up a number of differently formatted documents for various audiences. We didn't use a work processor, we had plain text files that were marked up using an internal IBM markup language called GML. This was a simplified version of another language called SGML.

Of course, once I got back to college in 1987 I started using "real" word processors and assumed that my knowledge of SGML would be something that I'd never need again.

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