Here's an interesting question a friend had about documentation.  The hospital 
where I did my rotation used Microsoft Word.  They were relatively "clued up" 
but I hate to give my enthusiastic friend an answer like that.

Has anyone migrated to a wiki?  Is anyone using subversion?

On Thursday 28 August 2008, my friend wrote:
> .... 
> As part of ISO-17025 requirements we have to have a clean and
> accurate documentation system.  He [his bos] started off using LaTeX
> some years ago then found DocBook and hasn't looked back.
>
> On the face of it docbook sounds cool.  It goes a level higher than
> TeX/LaTeX to concentrate the writer's attention almost solely upon
> content (ostensibly a goal of LaTeX but even TeX doesn't escape
> some effort in devotion to layout).
>
> If you have heard of anything like docbook or perhaps something
> even more powerful do let me know.  I was wondering, for example,
> what the really clued-up quality assurance physicists use in the
> smarter/smaller medical physics institutions, since if anyone would
> know or rely upon elegant documentation systems they would,
> I'd guess. I'd imagine a fair few hackers involved in large developer
> base collaboration projects would also use tools highly fit for
> purpose.



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