Any software project needs to have good documentation, and it’s a constant challenge to maintain high quality technical communications. Apart from using a help authoring system many years ago (I was a user of Doc-to-help versions 1-2) I haven’t followed the area at all. But recent discussion on some of the threads I follow have me curious about technical standards like DITA and DocBook (see also: DITA vs. DocBook).
For DocBook, here’s a very good brief overview from the DMN Communications blog, where they cite this O’Reilly publication:
Get Started Writing in DocBook (enter guest as the user name and leave the password blank)
DocBook & DITA are not just for big technical communications projects. I noted that the recently released Islandora Documentation is written using the DocBook authoring framework.
Tags: DocBook, documentation