What tools are you using for technical documentation?
I am searching for a good and affordable solution that works like Confluence. Most of the documentation services, that I found, don't fit technical documentation (e.g. missing code highlighting) or their prices start at 50$.
Do you have any recommendations?
Good comments + Google docs + bug/taskmanager = pretty enough
What is your favourite bugtracker? I am using bugherd for customer feedback, but would love to hear about other tools.
Hi, I don't use the specific bugtracker, for now I'm using the clubhouse. It's not perfect for bugtracking, but I don't have anything else for now...
LaTeX (no, really)
Don't want to downvote you but holy shit that's a steep curve of entry
I agree, it does have a steep learning curve but I find that way of creating documents more satisfying as a developer ;) Also, since you are basically writing in text file, it is easy to automate (e.g. generate content from header files) and incorporate into a document. Nowadays, there's WYSIWYG solutions for LaTeX such as https://www.overleaf.com/ although I find that it's kind of defeat the purpose ...
That been said, I'm biased as I have been using LaTeX (on and off) since 1995 ...
Hahaha I remember trying to learn LaTeX in the 2nd year of my maths degree - gave up after one semester of assignments!
And I just started working on a tutorial in LaTeX, of course :)
Are you actually using LaTeX? Do you save your docs with git or are you using an online service?
Yes I do. I'm generating a PDF file and also an HTML document from the LaTeX document.
I have used Slate for several projects and is my go-to tool for docs :)
think readme.io is a good tool to show documentation and guides for both technical and non-technical users. Funny this thread reads like the cousin of another thread below where I gave the same answer :D
I'm working on a complementary product to documentation - a simple, crowdsourced dictionary of technical or niche-specific terminology. Right now, I'm focusing specifically on programming terms (currently at 1000+), but hoping to expand into other niche fields/company lingo/and communities. Let me know if this would be useful/interesting to you!
I read about your project in another thread and really like it. I think it will help with communicating complicated terms with project partners. I hope we will have this one day in german ;)
Der Duden für Coder!
Slate - https://github.com/lord/slate
Thanks! Do you have experiences with using Slate out of its API context?
No sorry :/