Software documentation guide¶
This guide gathers the collective wisdom of the Write the Docs community around best practices for creating software documentation and technical writing. The guide originally started for developers to understand and explain documentation to each other. Since then, the focus and community of Write the Docs has expanded.
This is a living, breathing guide. If you’d like to contribute, take a look at the guidelines for contributing to the guide.
How to start writing technical documentation¶
Resources for creating documentation¶
Approaches to creating documentation¶
Understanding markup languages¶
Documentation tools¶
How to write API documentation¶
Contributing to Write the Docs¶
Write the Docs resources¶
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