AIMS software guide

AML formatting conventions

The AML formatting conventions have been designed with the following criteria in mind:

• The markup shall be easy to read and to type, so that it is convenient to hand edit the text with the markup annotations.

• It shall only be used for markup of the content of articles. Main headlines, front page, and other paraphernalia that require particular graphical facilities are outside the range of expressivity of AML.

• The notation shall contain primitives both for conventional text and for those constructs that map to "hot" (linked) structures in HTML.

AML is only used as an intermediary notation that is then translated to latex, html, or other markup systems.

In addition, AML also contains an embedded notation for expressing formulas, called AFL.

The present webpage contains online documentation of AML and AFL.

Maintenance information: Latest update 15.3.1999 by EMTEK group. Edit mode aml, position code D.int.userdoc.amlexpl.