What tools does your team use for writing user manuals? [closed]

Answer 1

For doument the code I use Doxigen. I prefer the linux version, I had have problems with a few features in the Windows version

Answer 2

For our API, we use Doxygen, which is great.

Answer 3

We've had great success with DocToHelp. It works great with Microsoft Word based documentation as well as other forms, and it's even got some great integration features for Visual Studio.

The best part is once you've got a core document base imported into DocToHelp, you can choose any one of a number of export formats be it WinHelp, HTML Help, Java Help or the nice and fancy searchable Net Help.

Answer 4

LaTeX

Answer 5

We use Word. It gets put into our version control, so we have history (there's a documentation folder linked to every project). Formatting can be controlled using templates, all of which we now have set up, so making changes is easy to do within the layout standards. The files can be exported to PDF. You can publish them as read-only docs for sharing with users.

Answer 6

For some time we were using DocBook, but it was very hard to extend with more advanced, and necessary features (syntax highlighting, splitting into several files, multilinguality management etc.). Later, we decided to write our own system from scratch and release it as open-source: link text. It uses plain text files and Markdown as the syntax language, and now we have everything we need. The disadvantage is that currently there is probably no Markdown parser that produces something else than HTML output. For now this is enough, but we are thinking about implementing PDF support quite soon.

Moreover, we are maintaing MediaWiki as a community-based help.