Editing Formatted text (section)

==Markup languages==
{{Main article|Markup language}}

Formatting can be marked by tags distinguished from the body text by special characters, such as angle brackets in [[HTML]]. For example, this text:

:The dog is classified as ''Canis familiaris'' in taxonomy.

is marked up in [[HTML]] thus:
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<p>The dog is classified as <i>Canis familiaris</i> in taxonomy.</p>
</syntaxhighlight>
The italicised text is enclosed by an opening and a closing italics tag. In [[LaTeX]], the text would be marked up like this:
<syntaxhighlight lang="latex">
The dog is classified as \textit{Canis familiaris} in taxonomy.
</syntaxhighlight>
Most markup languages can be edited with any [[text editor]], needing no special [[software]]. Many markup languages can also be edited with specialized software designed to automate some functions or present the output as [[WYSIWYG]].