FREE SOFTWARE DIRECTORY

Documentation tools

Categories within Documentation tools

• TexInfo/LaTeX/Tex editors and tools

• Documentation conversion

• Documentation word processing

• Documentation translation

Projects within Documentation tools

• AdaDoc

  - Documentation tool for Ada

• AsmRef

  - Reference for x86 assembly language programmers

• CPlusPlusDoc

  - C++ documentation tool

• Cpp2latex

  - Converts C++ into LaTeX

• Cxref

  - Produces documentation from C source code

• DocBook XSL Stylesheets

  - Stores content in a presentation neutral form

• DocFrac

  - Converts documents between RTF, TXT, and HTML formats

• Doclifter

  - Translates n/t/g/roff documentation to DocBook XML markup

• Dox

  - Graphical documentation browser

• Doxygen

  - Cross-platform documentation system

• Epydoc

  - A tool for documenting Python projects

• Faq-O-Matic

  - Automates the creation and maintenance of a FAQ

• Header Browser

  - Creates documentation from C/C++ header files

• Indexed PDF Creator

  - Creates indexed PDF documents from text files

• Jaxml

  - Automatically generates XML documents

• KVortaro

  - A tool to translate words from one language into another.

• LaTeX

  - Typesetting system

• Lahelper

  - GUI for LaTeX

• Man

  - Man page suite used to read GNU/Linux documentation

• Man-db

  - Reference manual page database and browser

• Man2web

  - Converts man pages to HTML

• Multitail

  - Tail on multiple windows with a ncurses interface

• Natural Docs

  - Multi-language, source code documentation generator

• Pasdoc

  - Documentation generator for pascal source code

• Pinfo

  - Ncurses based info documentation browser

• ROBODoc

  - Documentation tool

• Skribe

  - Word processor for writing technical documents

• StandardizeIPA

  - This program translates "North American IPA" in UTF-8 Unicode into the standard International Phonetic Alphabet.

• Stenciltools

  - Tools for text generation and manipulation

• System-V banner clone

  - Displays a 'banner' text

• Texinfo

  - Produces manuals, ASCII text, and on-line documentation

• TinyDoc

  - A documentation organizer

• TinyRML2PDF

  - Creates PDF documents

• Txt2man

  - Converts ASCII text to man page format

• UDO

  - Converts documentation from its own UDO format to various other formats

• XML::Twig

  - Processes XML documents

• Yelp

  - Gnome help browser

• antiword

  - Converts MS-Word documents to ASCII and Postscript

• c2html

  - Converts C source files to highlighted html files

• chgrep

  - Searches for and changes a given string

• cko

  - Colors kernel messages in the BSD style

• doxymacs

  - Makes using/creating Doxygen easier for Emacs users

• eXtrans

  - Translates XML documents into other formats

• earm2ipa

  - This program translates Armenian in UTF-8 Unicode to the International Phonetic Alphabet assuming that the dialect represented is Eastern Armenian.

• gman

  - GUI for the man system

• groff

  - Document formatting system

• java2html

  - Translates Java files to HTML

• mkDoxy

  - Makes Doxygen-like web page documentation from makefiles

• orgadoc

  - Helps organize documentation

• pdftk

  - Toolkit for working with PDF documents

• perl-reference

  - Displays Perl reference documentation

• phpMyFAQ

  - Database-driven FAQ system

• phpman

  - PHP/MySQL-based system for publishing manuals and documentation

• seealso

  - Searches and prints references from manpages

• src-highlite

  - Turns source code into a file with syntax highlighting

• uni2ascii

  - A pair of programs that convert between Unicode and various 7-bit ASCII representations.

• xmlg

  - Splits an XML file into a TextArray and XML markup information

• xmlmp

  - Facilitates writing *nix manpages using XML