Rewriting Manifesto/DocumentationConventions - The Linux Documentation Project

4. DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

Here are the conventions that are currently used for LDP documents. If you are interested in writing another document using different conventions, please let us know of your plans first.

- All HOWTO documents must be in one of these formats: LinuxDoc SGML or DocBook XML/SGML. LinuxDoc is the simplest DTD while DocBook is a more complex mark-up (with more features).
- The guides -- full books produced by the LDP -- have historically been done in LaTeX, as their primary goal has been to be printed documentation. However, guide authors have been moving towards SGML with the DocBook DTD, because it allows them to create many different kinds of output, both printed and on-line.

Rewriting Manifesto/DocumentationConventions (last edited 2008-09-09 09:16:24 by jdd)