Re: What Program Do You Use for Software Documentation?

["John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

XMetal for xml files tied to Documentum for content management.

Why? Because we AREN'T a small IT department.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Paul Weir <Pweir -at- bju -dot- edu> wrote:
> I just started working as a Technical Writer a couple months ago and have been using Microsoft Word thus far to write user-documentation for a couple of in-house software programs. I have also recently been interested in learning more about using XML for this purpose, but am not sure it would be a benefit to me in my small IT department.
>
> So, I ask as a novice, what software do you all use for your technical writing and why?

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