Balisage is, most commonly in military applications, the use of dim lighting to enable navigation while not giving away one's position to the enemy.

Computer applications usage

It can also refer, in computer applications, to the use of

markup Markup or mark-up can refer to: * Markup language, a standardized set of notations used to annotate a plain-text document's content to give information regarding the structure of the text or instructions for how it is to be displayed ** Lightweigh ...

to enable document processing while not "giving away" one's data to proprietary software programs from which it might be hard to extract the data later. This usage may have originated in the fact that the French version of the

ISO ISO is the most common abbreviation for the International Organization for Standardization. ISO or Iso may also refer to: Business and finance * Iso (supermarket), a chain of Danish supermarkets incorporated into the SuperBest chain in 2007 * Is ...

standard defining

SGML The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986) is a standard for defining generalized markup languages for documents. ISO 8879 Annex A.1 states that generalized markup is "based on two postulates": * Declarative: Markup should d ...

, translates the title thus: :''Information processing - Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)'' :''Traitement de l'information -- Systèmes bureautiques -- Langage normalisé de balisage généralisé (SGML)''
Balisage
is also an annual conference on XML and related markup technologies.

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