SCRIPT (markup)

SCRIPT,[1] any of a series of text markup languages starting with Script[2][3] under Control Program-67/Cambridge Monitor System (CP-67/CMS) and Script/370[4] under Virtual Machine Facility/370 (VM/370) and the Time Sharing Option (TSO) of OS/VS2; the current version, SCRIPT/VS,[5][6][7] is part of IBM's Document Composition Facility (DCF)[8] for IBM z/VM and z/OS systems. SCRIPT was developed for CP-67/CMS by Stuart Madnick[1][9] at MIT, succeeding CTSS RUNOFF.

SCRIPT is a procedural markup language. Inline commands called control words, indicated by a period in the first column of a logical line, describe the desired appearance of the formatted text. SCRIPT originally provided a 2PASS option to allow text to refer to variables defined later in the text, but subsequent versions allowed more than two passes.

  1. ^ a b Stuart E. Madnick and Allen G. Moulton (1968) "SCRIPT, An Online Manuscript Processing System" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-09-12. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech, Vol. EWS-11, No. 2, pp. 92-100.
  2. ^ CMS SCRIPT User's Manual. IBM. GH20-0860.
  3. ^ "SCRIPT", Control Program-67/Cambridge Monitor System (CP-67/CMS) Version 3 Program Number 3600-05.2.005 User's Guide (PDF), First Edition, IBM, October 1970, pp. 143[127]–177[163], GH20-0859-0
  4. ^ SCRIPT/370 Text Processing Facility Under Virtual Machine Facility/370 (VM/370) Program Description/Operations Manual Program Number 5796-PAF (PDF), First Edition, IBM, November 1972, SH20-1114-0
  5. ^ DCF V1R4.0: SCRIPT/VS User's Guide. Third Edition. IBM. May 1999. S544-3191-02.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ DCF: SCRIPT/VS Language Reference. Eighth Edition. IBM. September 1998. SH35-0070-07.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ DCF V1R4.0: SCRIPT/VS Text Programmer's Guide, Eighth Edition, IBM, August 1999, SH35-0069-07[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Document Composition Facility and Document Library Facility General Information Program Numbers 5748-XX9 5748-XXE. Eleventh Edition. IBM. January 1991. GH20-9158-10.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ Charles F. Goldfarb (1996). "The Roots of SGML - A Personal Recollection". Archived from the original on 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2012-02-26.