Recommendations for writing a user guide with examples?

Paddy paddy3118 at googlemail.com
Sun Dec 9 05:55:37 EST 2007


On Dec 8, 9:22 pm, Neal Becker <ndbeck... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations for writing a user manual.  It will need
> lots of examples of command line inputs and terminal outputs.
>
> I'd like to minimize the effort to integrate the terminal input/output into
> my document.  I have lots of experience with latex, but I wonder if there
> may be some other choices.  Maybe docutils, pydoc, something else?  The
> code I'm documenting is written in python, if that matters.

Doctest and restructuredtext.
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html

- Paddy.



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