On 17 luglio 2014 14:11:50 CEST, Michael Kesper mkesper@fsfe.org wrote:
Hi all,
I hope someone of you has got experience with this subject: A department wants to unify its documentations. What's existing are 500+ MS Word documents written in a unified template. What they search: a way to generate different documents from single sources (user, teacher, support, in-line help for programs) and a "database" that enables access via search, index and keywords. Sounds very much like a jack of all trades to me, but maybe some of you
know a feasible approach?
I suggest Sphinx, even if it doesn't have inline help for programs, as far as I know. But it does have a search function and it's very flexible. There's also a tool to convert from odt to restructuredtext: http://sphinx-doc.org/intro.html#conversion-from-other-systems
It's used by python and django project (and many others).