What is a good tool for writing a user manual (help file), which integrates with version control

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Ola Eldøy picture Ola Eldøy · Sep 30, 2008 · Viewed 13k times · Source

The people writing the user manual are not necessarily programmers, and they need a visual editor. A major issue is the internal format of the authoring tool; it should be readable text/html, so it's easy to compare versions of individual pages checked into version control.

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prakash picture prakash · Sep 30, 2008

DocBook

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(source: docbook.org)

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