Information for Potential Authors
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Documentation Standards
The Free Software Foundation actively promotes the use and development of free software for documentation. Our preferred standard for documentation formatting is the simple but powerful language Texinfo; DocBook may also be used. Graphic illustrations may be created with GIMP.
- GNU Coding/Documentation Standards
- A section from the GNU Project Information for Maintainers Manual
- A Draft GNU Press Style Guide (Texinfo source, PDF)
- Texinfo Manual
- DocBook
- The GIMP
- The GNU Free Documentation License