Digital Resources for Mental Health Professionals: Document Creation (Part 3)
This is part 3 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
Markup Languages
This can sound intimidating at first but it isn't really that hard.
As opposed to WYSIWYG word processors like Word, writing documents using markup languages comes from the concept of separating the content of text from its styling. In a previous post I mentioned why WYSIWYG can be problematic.
A markup language is an agreed upon set of symbols or tags that tell the computer about the structure of parts of the text. HTML (which is the format of web pages) and BBcode (used in forums in the mid-00s) are examples of markup languages.
In HTML, you can use tags to tell the computer that you want to emphasize a certain sentence or that a sentence is a headline or a blockquote. As a result the computer will display these different parts of the document with different styles. The actual styling is handled separately using a stylesheet.
In the next post, I will introduce you to a markup language that became very popular the past 10 years.
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This post is part of a challenge to write 150 blog posts of 150 words each this year. This is post 32 out of 150.