I noticed that some Wiki's let you build forms for input. I've been
thinking about using forms myself.

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Tim Fournet wrote:
> we're using wiki for our collaborative documentation, but it is by no 
> means clean, and there's nothing to ensure accuracy. It's great for 
> quickly inputting vital info, then coming back to format later, but 
> there's nothing in the way of enforcing consistency or forcing it to be 
> used. It may be better in the below listed case to build something with 
> customized forms where users can input data where it goes, and keep 
> track of and build searches of the data that's been input
> 
> 
> 
> willhill wrote:
>> 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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