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Manual Writing Tools?

Saulo Achkar writes "I've been recently assigned the task to rewrite the user's manual to a piece of relative complex software. Today, the existent manual used was developed with reStructuredText, a very nice piece of software; unfortunately, we're not able to create classes or templates for things like similar interfaces (that share the same functions), which means we need to write more code and that means more editing. XML formats aren't very friendly to code or edit in, either. What kind of techniques or tools are there to make writing manuals a bit friendlier and faster?"

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  1. Re:A spelling checker, for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, thanks for making the same joke after about 200 other people have already made it.

    I suppose I can't expect much from a fag who links to the DIXIE CHICKS in his sig...and the subscriber * next to your name is like a proud badge of idiocy.