digital text questions....

Hi

Forgive me if this is a obvious question etc, as I don't know anything about it (hence me asking!)

How is digital text created -which language is used, is there specific software that is used to create pages from bbci (as an example)?

For the web, XHTML, with JPGs, GIFs, etc and that's created in Dreamweaver, for instance, so is there an equivelent way to look at it for digital text?

Thanks

Well

DTT (Freeview) uses a language called MHEG, Sky uses OpenTV and cable uses Liberate IIRC.

They'll be made on systems built by the broadcasters themselves one would expect as there isn't a mass demand for them and they all have different needs e.g. the BBC wanting to publish a story and have it appear on all three versions of their text service (+ ceefax) at once.

There is basically 200 typewriters, 200 monkeys, and from here it all gets to air.

In a few hundred years they should have managed to write the entire works of Shakespeare.