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What markup language is this? (ca. 1991)

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I am preserving a manuscript written by my father. The data files are on 5.25" floppy. I have successfully read the files off the disks, but neither of us knows what format the markup language is. It is one used by book publishers back in the early 1990s. Here are a few lines from one of the files.…

Error Output

\m\m<ps;3><l>\
<ep>\
{cn}1 \
{ct}Rethinking Universality:<qa>\
Six Cases<lrh;;1>Rethinking Universality: Six
Cases<xlrh><rrh;;2>Rethinking Universali…

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I found this PDF on Xyvision Production Publisher (which is likely what was used). Note under FinalPages it lists HTML as an output format. If you could somehow get a copy of some version of this software running, you may be able to get it to spit o…

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