Documentation Tools

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sun Mar 20 17:01:02 UTC 2005


Hi, Lorne--

On Mar 20, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Lorne G wrote:
> I would like to know if you use a particular tool to create the online
> documentation or if you write the html manually. I would like to start
> creating documentation like the handbook for my projects. I would like 
> to
> know if you use a tool that manages the table of contents and the 
> next|prev
> buttons for each section. Thanks very much for your help.

The FreeBSD documentation is largely written in SGML using a set of 
tools described here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/

This'll show you have to set up the tools, create your own articles, as 
well as how to contribute documentation changes back to FreeBSD.

-- 
-Chuck





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