Chapter 8. Documentation Environments

This chapter discusses what documentation provides for a product and who the customer is for the different kinds of documentation. This chapter also shows that development environments for documentation teams are similar to the development environments used by developers writing source code.

Some of the most commonly used file formats and the related tools for creating documentation are examined, and there is a discussion of how the different parts of creating the final versions of documentation can be automated. This chapter doesn't discuss writing style, different hyphenation schemes, or the flow of information in diagrams. I think that these topics are interesting, but they're outside the scope of this book.