[TxMt] Re: OT: Help files and Manuals

[Allan Odgaard]

On 26. Oct 2004, at 19:47, Ian G. Gillespie wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good program that one can use to create a help 
> file and a PDF manual without maintaining two sets of documents?

LaTeX does really nice PDF and with tex4ht I think the HTML result is 
also reasonable good.

Another option is DocBook, though the PDF is not very nice when using 
the freeware converters available.

Basically you just want to settle on some generic markup language that 
allows you to convert it to whatever format you desire.

Which markup language is best suited probably depends mostly of what 
type of documentation you're writing, i.e. is it heavily interlinked, 
using all sorts of "typegraphic" features, footnotes, images etc.


Kind regards Allan
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