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Nugent IR language(ID:8010/)

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Designed 1959

Unnamed IR language designeded by William Nugent of ITEK to permit contextualised information retrieval - an extended marking system that made use of predefined font alphabets.

By switching between alphabet systems, the dpo could enter symbolic or semantic information along with the text. This is the first ever markup system, preceding the GML family by a decade.

The system made use of the mnemonic CUDSIBLOP - GAME VF

(for
C CAP (Capitals)
U UP (Superscript)
D DOWN (Subscript)
S SCRIPT
I ITALICS
B BOLDFACE
L LINE (Underlined)
O 0VERLINE
P PRINK
G GREEK (Lower Case)
A ATHENS (Greek Capital)
M MATH (Science Symbols)
E END (Punctuation, Bounds)
F FLOAT (Variable Def. Compiler)
V VERBAL (In-Context Description)
)

Default - no indicator - was lower case Roman

References:
  • Nugent, William R. (1959) Nugent, William R. "A machine language for documentation and information retrieval" pp1-4 Abstract Online copy
          in (1959) SESSION: Information sorting and retrieval
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