SGML

All of our Technical Authors and Data Compilers are experienced and fully trained in the use of SGML and proficient in AECMA Simplified English. The structured authoring system most commonly used in-house is Mekon’s Eclipse Create for ASD S1000D/DefStan 00-60 and Adobe’s FrameMaker +SGML and Epic Arbortext. Keyword and FrameMaker S1000D simplified English.

Standard Generalised Mark-up Language, or SGML, is an international standard (ISO 8879) published in 1986.  SGML embeds mark-up in text to describe documents as a hierarchical structure of elements.  For example, a book may consist of chapters, which contain paragraphs, and lists, while lists consist of items, and items and paragraphs contain text, emphasized phrases, and cited titles.  By labelling such elements with generic identifiers instead of the intended processing – SGML mark-up may identify a chapter heading rather then specifying a font, leading, and margins – SGML allows multiple text processing applications to process a single document.  Since SGML is defined in an international standard, it’s definition is readily available and new applications can easily be designed.  SGML documents are not dependent on any hardware, software, formats, or operating system.  They are portable and you can exchange them seamlessly with users who have different systems.