Editing Markup language (section)

==Etymology<span class="anchor" id="Etymology and origin"></span>==

The noun ''markup'' is derived from the traditional publishing practice called ''"marking up"'' a [[manuscript]], which involves adding handwritten annotations in the form of conventional symbolic [[Printing|printer]]'s instructions — in the margins and the text of a paper or a printed manuscript. 

For centuries, this task was done primarily by skilled typographers known as "markup men"<ref>Allan Woods, ''Modern Newspaper Production'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 85; Stewart Harral, ''Profitable Public Relations for Newspapers'' (Ann Arbor: J.W. Edwards, 1957), 76; and ''Chiarella v. United States'', {{ussc|445|222|1980}}.</ref> or "markers"<ref>'' From the Notebooks of H.J.H & D.H.An on Composition'', Kingsport Press Inc., undated (the 1960s).</ref> who marked up text to indicate what [[typeface]], style, and size should be applied to each part, and then passed the manuscript to others for [[typesetting]] by hand or machine. 

The markup was also commonly applied by editors, [[proofreader]]s, publishers, and graphic designers, and indeed by document authors, all of whom might also mark other things, such as corrections, changes, etc.