[TriLUG] Documentation format question

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:14 pm, Kevin Miller wrote:
> > I use PMwiki (http://www.pmwiki.org/), however I've heard MoinMoin
> > (http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/), Twiki (http://twiki.org/), and
> > TikiWiki (http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php) are popular.  PHPWiki needs
> > alot of work, and has a much less professional interface.
>
> Wikis are incredibly useful for documenting stuff quickly. 

IMHO for the ultimate in documentation speed, assuming only one person is 
doing the documentation, is VimOutliner (http://www.vimoutliner.org). 
VimOutliner uses the Vim engine, so it has Vim's keystroke efficiency. It's 
an outline processor whose features include promote/demote, expand/collapse, 
hoisting, body text, interoutline links, and executable lines.

VimOutliner stores its data as simple tab indended outlines, so it's 
incredibly parsable, especially using the Node.pm perl module 
(http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/Node/index.htm). I use outlines to 
store data for menus, bookmark pages, the Troubleshooters.Com Linux Library 
main page (http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm). I also use 
VimOutliner to create book tables of contents, and then parse them to create 
a LyX skelleton for the book.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
http://www.golug.org