Whatever you decide, pandoc <http://pandoc.org> should help you automate 
translation, and it is strong enough to lean on. I have not used a markup 
system with readable raw files and good math support and just enough 
flexibility.


On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 1:43:35 PM UTC-5, Tomas Lycken wrote:
>
> Over at Interpolations.jl, we've started thinking about restructuring our 
> documentation a little. We basically have (or will have) three levels of 
> documentation: usage docs, specifying how to use the library; math docs, 
> fleshing out the mathematical background to the algorithms and assumptions 
> we've used; and devdocs, which describe implementation details that might 
> not be obvious just from reading the code (for one thing, the library is 
> quite heavy on metaprogramming).
>
> The usage/api docs are slowly being migrated to docstrings, with the hope 
> that the users will actually be able to find it :)
>
> I'm looking for input on what tools, formats, platforms etc have worked 
> well for the other two types of documentation in other projects, and in 
> what form you, as users or contributors to the library, would prefer 
> consuming that documentation.
>
> A stong requirement is that it is editable, and preferrably also quite 
> readable, as plaintext. For the math docs, it's also important (obviously) 
> that the support for rendering equations, matrices etc is good.
>
> Have you used any tools or platforms previously that solve these problems 
> well? Do you have recommendations about which ones to avoid?
>
> All suggestions are welcome!
>
> // T
>

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