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

[Justin Haynes]

alt.sys.pdp10 had a thread about open source clones.  I didn't see that
there were any, but maybe some leads:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.sys.pdp10/O_xnpAh63ho



On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Justin Haynes <justin at justinhaynes.com>
wrote:

> 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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