A procedural markup language is embedded within the text to provide instructions about how to process the code. They may use macros to apply on the given text.
This post features procedural markup languages.
This post is part of a more general post about markup languages.
List of Procedural Markup Language
List of procedural document markup languages:
- troff
- TeX
- Low and medium-level PCLs
troff
troff is a document processing system for Unix.
Its peak of popularity was in the 1970s and 1980s to write scientific documents.
TeX
TeX is a mathematical markup language commonly used in mathematics.
LaTeX is a descriptive markup language based on TeX.
To embed TeX within a website, you can use MimeTeX and MathTeX.
Low and medium-level PCLs
Low and medium abstraction-level page description languages (PDLs) are examples of procedural markup languages.
Examples of page description languages that are procedural markup languages:
- PCL
- PostScript
You can read a post about page description languages.