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Quoth · 03-29-2023, 11:34 AM

Computer programs only use left in left to right languages. Most text editors only had space, tab and newline as "formatting".

Movable type is pretty much linear like HTML. Hypertext before Tim Berners-Lee was for documents. His HTML was for documents, not computer programs. Computer programs only need one enclosing tag, <pre>
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_pre.asp
And it is in HTML 2.0, which was the first version widely used on the internet
https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/....html#SEC5.5.2
See https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/

With the addition of CSS there is 1:1 mapping of wordprocessor styles to css.

Anything other than sequential text using movable type needed an engraved plate until photo-lithographic typesetting took over. Also movable type existed in China long before Caxton. Europe had book printing before Gutenberg (who predated Caxton). A plate was engraved for each page. It was a lot slower and errors were left in due time to make a replacement plate. The letterpress or movable type allowed corrections after a proof print was made. It was actually less flexible on layout and the text would be reused, thus a later print run needed the book to be re-set, whereas the older plate per page system might have the plates in storage longer before melting down.

03-29-2023, 11:34 AM	#191
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,449 Karma: 107078855 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Computer programs only use left in left to right languages. Most text editors only had space, tab and newline as "formatting". Movable type is pretty much linear like HTML. Hypertext before Tim Berners-Lee was for documents. His HTML was for documents, not computer programs. Computer programs only need one enclosing tag, <pre> https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_pre.asp And it is in HTML 2.0, which was the first version widely used on the internet https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/....html#SEC5.5.2 See https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/ With the addition of CSS there is 1:1 mapping of wordprocessor styles to css. Anything other than sequential text using movable type needed an engraved plate until photo-lithographic typesetting took over. Also movable type existed in China long before Caxton. Europe had book printing before Gutenberg (who predated Caxton). A plate was engraved for each page. It was a lot slower and errors were left in due time to make a replacement plate. The letterpress or movable type allowed corrections after a proof print was made. It was actually less flexible on layout and the text would be reused, thus a later print run needed the book to be re-set, whereas the older plate per page system might have the plates in storage longer before melting down.