On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Matthew Sell wrote:
I work for a small consulting company that creates
software for
distribution. We're a low volume operation, and don't have many
employees.
I've been trying to rein in the whole development process to
streamline it over the last couple of years, and now I need to
streamline the methods by which we create documentation for our
products.
I'd love to know what systems people on this list use for creating
software documentation (manuals, etc.), and I'd love to hear any
recommendations for systems that allow for concurrent access (kinda
like CVS), change approval, revision control, etc, etc.
Are there any good open-source solutions available? I've been
searching and gathering information, and I'd really appreciate hearing
the experiences of others on this list.
You can use CVS in combination with either TeX, or Docbook,
or nroff, or HTML, or.... I don't think any "packaged" open
source products exist because it's easy enough to roll your
own sophisticated document production system with standard
development tools (CVS and make) combined with any number of
the dozens of freely available text processing tools.
-brian.