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Content management systems (content management at document not granular level)
Component content management systems
Common source databases
Tools for generating documentation from the basis of comments in code source files, or from screenshot sequences
Tools for inline or in-app help, walkthroughs, guides & coach marks
Desktop or hosted tools designed for authoring & publishing help files
Online repository of information about a product, service, department, or topic
Tools for internationalization and localization (i18n)
Tool plugins and scripts for unique functionality
Web template systems that use a processor to combine templates to produce web pages
Editors (non-IDEs) for authoring text, markup, code, and other outputs
Tools for viewing help files
Tools offering collaborative authoring & publishing from a web browser
Desktop or hosted tools for authoring & editing documents
Tools for authoring & editing XML files
Platforms
A family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers
A mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets
Berkley Software Distribution (BSD) is a Unix operating system derivative
Tools that are installed, hosted, and accessed from a remote server
A mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware
A Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution
A Unix-based graphical operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc.
A computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc.
Unix-like real-time operating system for the embedded systems market
Tools installed on the vendor's servers and accessed via the internet
A family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems
Tools enabling authoring, editing & other functionality via web browser
A family of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft
A family of mobile operating systems for smartphones developed by Microsoft
Cost, localization, and topic reuse
The tool is freely available for use and its source code is available for modification
Freeware with minimal conditions for use but whose source code has not been made public
The tool may be distributed as shareware, a fremium product, or may be purchased for use
The tool features either native or free plugin support for localization of source documentation
The tool enables the reuse of a given topic in more than one location in one or several documents
Online formats
Formats optimized for displaying explanatory information on a screen
Formats optimized for displaying explanatory information on a screen
Cross-platform runtime system for building desktop and mobile applications that run outside of a browser
MacOS help file format for display in Apple Help Viewer
Human-readable document format, semantically equivalent to DocBook XML, but using plaintext mark-up conventions
File format for storing ASCII bibliographical information using BiBTeX formatting
The printable output of TeX, LaTeX, and similar text formatting programs
Searchable HTML-based help content for the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Proprietary help format for Windows desktop applications
Help content generated by Adobe Flash
HTML-based format for viewing in HelpGUI
Microsoft-proprietary help format consisting of a collection of HTML pages, an index, and other tools. Output is typically a single CHM (Compiled HTML) file
Online help format for display in the JavaHelp browser, delivered as a JAR file
Open format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and array data types (or any other serializable value)
Format of software documentation found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system
File format used by Microsoft Help Viewer
Context-sensitive online help format based on jQuery, for display in a browser or application
HTML-based help format developed for the OmniHelp viewer
XML-based open file format for saving and exchanging text & other elements
Text document file format orignally created for StarOffice Writer
Oracle Help for Java (OHJ) and Oracle Help for Web (OHW) are file formats for displaying HTML-based help content in a Java environment
XML-based file format that is a ZIP archive of several related files
XML-based format for the Paligo help authoring system
XML-based collection of help files for the Qt application framework
Project file format for HTML Help and WinHelp projects
Website containing pages of fixed content
Source file prepared by the typsetting system LaTeX
Text files formatted as structured data by users of the TeXmacs application
Device-independent ASCII description of a typeset document
HTML-based help typically displayed in a two-pane layout in a browser, with frameset and table of contents on the left and help content in the main panel
Help format generated by WebWorks ePublisher and based on XHTML and other technologies
RTF-based help format that can be displayed by the Microsoft Help browser winhelp.exe or winhlp32.exe
Free and open source CMS based on PHP and SQL
Help system for the cross-platform GUI library wxWidgets
Human-readable data serialization language for configuration & storage use cases
Markup formats
Formats for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text
Formats for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML data model for authoring and publishing content
XML-based semantic markup language enabling publication into a variety of other formats
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Lightweight markup language for Python docstrings
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
XML-based markup language used by Adobe InDesign
The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an XML format for describing scientific literature published online
Comment markup in Java source code that is extracted by the Javadoc documentation generator
Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML) is an XML-based markup language developed by the Microsoft User Assistance Platform team
Lightweight markup language with plaintext formatting syntax, designed for easy conversion to other formats such as HTML
A mathematical markup language and application of XML
Markdown-based markup language that supports some additional export formats currently not available with Markdown syntax
Adaptation of Javadoc for the PHP programming language
Plain Old Documentation (POD) is a lightweight markup language used to document the Perl programming language
Python-based file format and light markup language for textual data
International specification for preparing, managing, and using equipment maintenance and operations information
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a standard for defining markup languages, from which HTML, XML, and other markup languages are derived
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a set of guidelines that specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts
Lightweight markup language that uses a text formatting syntaxt to convert plain text into structured HTML markup
Lightweight markup language for authoring and publishing wiki documents
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) is part of a family of XML markup languages, and extends standard HTML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) defines rules for encoding documents in a textual data format
Print formats
Formats optimized for representing explanatory information output in print form
Formats optimized for representing explanatory information output in print form
PostScript document with additional restrictions that is intended to be usable as a graphics file format
Proprietary document format of Adobe FrameMaker
Binary file format used by Adobe InDesign
XML Paper Specification (XPS) is an open specification for a page description language and a fixed-document format
Open standard for presenting documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating system
Data that represents characters of readable material but not its graphical representation, nor other objects (images, etc.)
Description language that describes the appearance of a printed page
Text file format for cross-platform document interchange
File format generated by the word processor of the same name
Binary file format generated by the word processor of the same name
API definition languages (REST)
Documentation-oriented web API description languages
Documentation-oriented web API description languages
High-level API description language for RESTful web services
API description language generated using Apimatic developer tools
High-level API description language for RESTful web services, defining APIs at the resource, method, and parameter levels via a JSON schema
API description language for RESTful web services, defining APIs at the resource, method, and parameter levels via a JSON schema
Specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services (formerly known as Swagger)
A group of HTTP requests created in the Postman API development environment
RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) is a YAML-based language for describing RESTful APIs
Web Application Description Language (WADL) is a machine-readable XML description of RESTful HTTP-based web services (REST)
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based interface definition language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service
E-book formats
Popular e-book file formats
Popular e-book file formats
E-book file format that can be downloaded and read on devices like smartphones, tablets, computers, or e-readers
Kindle Format 8 for mobile devices
E-book format used for the Mobipocket Reader
File format for reading e-books on hand-held devices or on Windows computers
E-book format for devices running Palm Reader and Pocket PC software
Localization formats
Formats that facilitate localization of software user interfaces and other components
Formats that facilitate localization of software user interfaces and other components
Compilation of strings for translation, extracted from C++ code, for the localization of the Haiku operating system
Type of Java configuration file useful for internationalization & localization
Plaintext glossary compiled by OmegaT
Language-specific, plaintext file containing pairs of source strings and their translated target equivalents
Plaintext list of all translatable strings extracted from source code
XML-based file that stores translation strings, edited by the Qt Linguist module
International standard (ISO 30042:2008) for the representation of structured concept-oriented terminological data
XML-based format created to standardize the way localizable data are passed between tools during a localization process
Recognized Languages
Programming languages recognized for generating documentation via docstrings or other formats, or for syntax highlighting
Programming languages recognized for generating documentation via docstrings or other formats, or for syntax highlighting
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