A good tool for technical documentation?

Posted by playing_colours on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:50AM
from the self-post dept.

Now we use google docs for writing design docs, technical specifications. A doc is shared with several participants who can write / comment. I think there must be a better solutions to write and store documents (ideally, with markdown support) with a decent discussion / comments functionality. It can be a SaaS, but ideally something open sourced you can deploy.

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Re:A good tool for technical documentation? by docsapp_io on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:22AM (#11628100)

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Re:A good tool for technical documentation? by brianjking on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:35AM (#11628625)

I write all my documentation in either Confluence, MkDocs (Markdown) or Sphinx (Markdown & reStructuredText).

http://www.mkdocs.org/ http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/index.html

Both MkDocs and Sphinx can deploy to ReadTheDocs.org which is very nice, especially when using Sphinx since it allows for PDF and ePUB downloads of the documentation as it's versioned.

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