(n)detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)
(n)(computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted, Syn.SGML
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