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I found this on a website... is anyone familiar with the program or method used to encode the formatting on the original text?

LaTeX. It is a descriptive language for word processing.

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~pyo22/students/latexRelated/latexTutorial.html
http://www.math.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/catam/ccatsl/latex.html