[ale] Structured Documentation

[Alan Dobkin]

I've never used it directly, but you might want to check out "Halibut:
yet another free document preparation system".  It was created by Simon
Tatham, the same developer who created PuTTY.  He uses it to maintain
all of the PuTTY documentation, which is pretty good.  Supported output
formats are text, HTML, Windows Help and Unix man pages, and others are
in the works.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/

Alan

On 8/20/2005 9:58 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I'm looking for open-source ways to generate and maintain structured
> documents. 
>
> When I say "structured documents" I'm talking about technical or
> procedural manuals suitable for printing or screen reading.  I'd like to
> be able to create a revision history on a part-by-part basis such that
> if I made a change to part 3.1.7, a new version of the entire doc would
> be generated and a look back at the previous version would show the
> pre-change 3.1.7.  Or, if I selected 3.1.7 and did some kind of history
> call-up on it, I'd see the current version plus all previous versions,
> their dates, and who modified them.
>
> Anyone know of anything in existence that works close to this?  I've got
> an idea in my head somewhere between Lyx and how Gentoo's online XML
> docs work.
>
> Jeff
>
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