[Zope] How to manage chapter-based documentation?

Jim Penny jpenny@universal-fasteners.com
Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:40:23 -0400


On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:22:39AM -0500, Ben Chapman wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> Please excuse this if it's been covered before...
> 
> I want my staff to create documentation about our work procedures in 
> structured text. My idea was that each "chapter" would be contained in a 
> folder. I would like these documents to automagically have a table of 
> contents, back and next links, etc., as is common in DocBook-derived 
> web-based documentation.

There is a product - ChrisM's backtalk system that does this rather
well.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/backtalk/

I recommend that you download the CVS release.

I have had minor problems with creating a "book of books"; but for
single level books it is very nice.  This is (more or less) what the
Zope Book people are using.

Jim Penny

> 
> I know that the Zope Book authors must have put together something like 
> this to assemble their book. Is this available anywhere or is an 
> alternative product like this available?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Ben Chapman
> 
> P.S. 90% of our law school's web-site is now Zope -- 
> http://www.law.utulsa.edu/ Thanks again for such phenomenal software.
> 
> -- 
> Benjamin J. Chapman   benjamin-chapman@utulsa.edu   918/631-2405
> Director of Computing Resources  TU College of Law
> http://www.utulsa.edu/law/support/
> Send computing support requests to: support@mail.law.utulsa.edu
> 
> 
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