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Subject:Re: Tools From:Daniel Feiglin <dilogsys -at- inter -dot- net -dot- il> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:29:11 +0200
If someone has not already suggested it, take a look at Paligo:
[1]https://paligo.net.
On 28/10/2020 20:51, Nina Barzgaran wrote:
Hello,
I have worked with Confluence for over 7 years now, nearly 4 of them
using it as a Help Authoring Tool.
I cannot recommend it as a 'HAT':
for anything you want to do that is remotely connected to the common
help authoring tasks, such as re-using content, snippets, variables,
review workflow, version management (as opposed to a file/page
change history) or custom CSS styling you need plugins.
After some time, it lands you, simply put, in plugin hell, because
the plugins even from the same vendor sometimes are not completely
compatible.
I'd recommend doing some research on *cloud-based Help Authoring
Tools*.
There are quite good ones out there, that offer a fine collaboration
interface and in addition almost anything you could wish for in help
authoring.
MadCap Flare, which is my tool of choice, if I have a choice, even
recently extended their cloud-features for the MadCap Central
platform.
Depending on the budget and (expected) size of documentation, other
tools might be more appropriate.
I can only say: beware of Confluence for help authoring!
It's great as a wiki and collaboration platform, which it was
designed for. Period.
Nina
Am 28/10/2020 um 16:00 schrieb John G:
Use Confluence as your help authoring tool. We do that for thousands
of
pages of documentation, for multiple applications, in multiple
languages.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:48 PM Deanna Korth
[2]<deanna -dot- korth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
Hi,
My company is looking to purchase a tool that will accept inputs
from:
- XML
- Confluence
- Word
and that will output to:
- HTML5
- Word
- PDF
- Confluence
We (they) want Confluence to be the source of truth because the
engineers
are used to writing documentation there. The kicker is keeping the
help
authoring system in sync with Confluence. Can you recommend a
solution or
tool?
Thank you,
Deanna.
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