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Re:Ask HN: documentation format? by crystalarchives on Friday March 14, 2008 @04:48PM (#137154)
Depends on the type of documentation, but I'm a fan of LaTeX since there are so many tex2____ programs out there that'll convert LaTeX to whatever format you want.

The learning curve is steeper but the flexibility is high.

Re:Ask HN: documentation format? by binglo on Friday March 14, 2008 @08:21PM (#137271)
Definitely beautiful pdf output, but I was never happy with the available "latex2html" converters.

Bonus for being able to render mathematics in your docs.

Edit -- Also, I agree with you about the learning curve. Although it's very easy to get good-looking docs if you use one of the canned documentclasses and built-in commands, once you start to stray from those you're in deep water very quickly.