manconvert
docsy
manconvert | docsy | |
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1 | 7 | |
1 | 2,462 | |
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2.6 | 9.2 | |
10 months ago | 3 days ago | |
Perl | HTML | |
- | Apache License 2.0 |
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manconvert
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Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?
A small Perl script <https://github.com/jmarshall/manconvert> that grinds a subset of man page nroff syntax directly into HTML. (That subset being “the constructs that are used in the man pages that it's used on”.)
Some of the styling could be improved (those section headings for one!), but IMHO it produces better results than other more general-purpose manpage to HTML converters: see e.g. <https://www.htslib.org/doc/samtools.html>.
docsy
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Apply Docsy
> cd (The root directory of the Git project. themes exists in current) > git submodule add https://github.com/google/docsy.git themes/docsy
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”Docsy” is a formal theme for technical documentation
Site URL Hugo theme introduction https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/docsy/ Sample/Demo https://example.docsy.dev/ Documentation https://www.docsy.dev/ Repository https://github.com/google/docsy
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Fifty of 2022's most popular Hugo themes
A set of Hugo documentation templates for launching open source content. Use case(s): Documentation Author: The Docsy Authors Minimum Hugo version: 0.73.0 Github stars: 1706 Last updated: 2022-05-14 License: Apache-2.0
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Twelve Amazing Free Hugo Documentation Themes
Download Docsy Docsy demo site Minimum Hugo version: 0.73 GitHub stars: 1.7k License: Apache-2.0
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Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?
Background: I've been a technical writer for 9 years. 6 at Google, 3 as the only writer at an IoT startup.
I helped Corrily with their docs [1] in August. They were interested in readme.io. I wasn't keen on it because I had worked with Retool a few years back and had found readme.io lacking. But I was pleasantly surprised by how much readme.io has progressed since then! If you're looking for a documentation product that is very easy to update and mostly just works, then it's worth checking out.
On https://web.dev I was introduced to Eleventy. Eleventy [2] is now my go to. The documentation for Elecenty itself is very strangely organized and needs a refactor. But I have found that there is always a way to accomplish whatever I need, and usually elegantly.
Another project worth checking out is Docsy [3]. This is a Jekyll template specifically created for technical documentation.
Back at the IoT startup I had to set up the whole documentation system / tooling myself. I used Sphinx and deployed to Heroku. Haven't used Sphinx since then but I remember being satisfied with it back then.
[1] https://docs.corrily.com
[2] https://11ty.dev
[3] https://docsy.dev
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Need help
I haven't used either of these, but I've heard good things about both https://github.com/google/docsy and https://thegooddocsproject.dev/. If you choose to use either of these, I'd love to hear about it. I have coworkers who contribute to both of them.
What are some alternatives?
doks - Everything you need to build a stellar documentation website. Fast, accessible, and easy to use.
Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
datastation-documentation - Source code for the DataStation documentation site
MkDocs - Project documentation with Markdown.
crossroad - 🛣 A React library to handle navigation in your WebApp. Built with simple components and React Hooks so your code is cleaner.
Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js
typesense-docsearch-scraper - A fork of Algolia's awesome DocSearch Scraper, customized to index data in Typesense (an open source alternative to Algolia)
hugo-geekdoc - Hugo theme made for documentation
hugo-blox-builder - 😍 EASILY BUILD THE WEBSITE YOU WANT - NO CODE, JUST MARKDOWN BLOCKS! 使用块轻松创建任何类型的网站 - 无需代码。 一个应用程序,没有依赖项,没有 JS
VuePress - 📝 Minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator