[ale] Structured Documentation

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:58 -0400, 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.

Sounds like a CVS/Subversion system for documentation to me, Jeff. If
it's written in XML the output can be any format you want. An article in
Linux Magazine
https://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/30/OpenOffice_Revision_Control.pdf
may have some ideas.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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