Formatting languages
Some stylesheet languages (including XSLT) are really transformation languages that can be used to create output in a number of presentation formats, including the ones described below.
TEX
TEX is a very popular typesetting language (written by Donald E. Knuth):
\par This paragraph has a \bf bold \rm word in it.
Its particular strength is typesetting books and journals that contain mathematical formulae. See http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/gentle/gentle.pdf for an introduction to this language.
TROFF
The TROFF (Text Run OFF) language has long been a popular typesetting language on UNIX systems. Developed in 1973, it soon became a popular typesetter-independent text formatter. It has detailed page control, and sophisticated ...
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