Documentation Guide¶
This guide gathers the collective wisdom of the Write the Docs community around best practices for creating software documentation.
This is a living, breathing guide. If you’d like to contribute, you can read our contributing documentation. Also feel free to send us any additions in any format to support@writethedocs.org.
Take a look also at the guidelines for contributing to the guide. If you have any questions about contributing, you can send them along to guide@writethedocs.org too.
New to Caring About Documentation?¶
Approaches to Creating Docs¶
- Documentation and product development
- Who writes the docs?
Markup Languages¶
- Asciidoc
- Cheatsheet
- Tutorial
- reStructuredText
- Cheatsheet
- Tutorial
- XML
- DITA
- DocBook
Tools of the Trade¶
- Keeping your documentation up to date
- Jekyll
API Documentation¶
Distribution¶
- Common Output formats
- Documentation Styles
- Slate
- Read the Docs Theme
- Alabaster
Writing Environments¶
- Text Editors
- IDEs
- Live Previews
Talks & slide decks¶
Additional Notes¶
Write the Docs Resources¶
- Conference: http://www.writethedocs.org/
- Slack: Write the Docs
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/writethedocs
- Issues & feature requests: https://github.com/writethedocs/docs/issues
- Source repository: https://github.com/writethedocs/docs
