A proposal to develop the system may be produced in response to a request for tenders by an. Sections and chapters overleaf, online latex editor. To be successfully with documentation, a software company must first enumerate the types of documentation. Whether public or private, confluence is a customizable platform that produces quality output from clear documentation. In the following examples the program fully automates the format and no manual intervention is required to readjust. Thebiblatexpackage programmablebibliographiesandcitations philipkime,moritzwemheuer, philipplehman version3. Detailed information about the commands available for use with the titletoc package is included with the titlesec package documentation. The titlesec package o ers a di erent approach to changing the appearance of sectional headings. The titlesec package o ers a di erent approach to changing the appear. Whether its for code youre creating, a change youre contemplating, or a problem that youre trying to resolve, the actual task of documentation. Installation guide software installation and documentation overview communication solutions hilscher gesellschaft fur systemautomation mbh. Small capitals for chapter titles, sections, subsection. Many cannot name more than one or two forms of documentation. The piupdatefinder searches online for updates of all pi software components installed on the customers computer.
Software documentation is written text or illustration that accompanies computer software or is embedded in the source code. This package allows to change in a straightforward way the sectioning format of a document. Technical teams may use docs to detail code, apis, and record their software development processes. For the quite sizable document that i have written, i took a reasonable amount of.
There is a lot of documentation in languages other than english. If option pdfusetitle is set then hyperref tries to derive the values for pdftitle and pdfauthor from \title and \author. The pi software is continuously improved and updated. But it also loads package titlesec for generally speaking title headings. Formatting chapter headings using the titlesec package. Ctan lives from the contributions of software and package contributors. You can use the titlesec package to customize chapters, sections and subsections style in an easy way. Aug 24, 2016 process street for internal use for training new developers and keeping your documentation living all in the same place, process street is a solid choice for software documentation. Titlesec works with the standard classes and with many others, including the ams ones, and it runs smoothly with hyperref. Evaluate, simplify, solve, and plot functions without the need to master a complex syntax.
You may redefine any commands by \renewcommand see examples in texmf\tex\latex\base\article. Good software documentation, whether a specifications document for programmers and testers, a technical document for internal users, or software manuals and help files for end users, helps the person. Nov 10, 2008 modifying section titles using titlesectitletoc package post by centurion555 mon nov 10, 2008 11. Modifying section titles using titlesectitletoc package. For software engineers, the following package option also load binary units. Name of the software displayed in the service catalog on the portal.
This is not always the desired behavior, so the package options nostruts is provided. This search considers the description, the documentation, and the contributors. Personally, i dont like the package that much, as the documentation is pretty confusing for me. They ensure that the information content, structure and format are suitable for the intended audience.
Software teams may refer to documentation when talking about product requirements, release notes, or design specs. The survey results highlight the preferences for and aversions against software documentation tools. The primary questions arising from the above interactions are. The titlesec package allows basic changes to the standard chapter style. As usual, load the package in the standard way with \usepackage. Oecn package general purposecommon applications printerfriendly version.
Software documentation, page 3, printed 71101 process and product documentation for large software projects, it is usually the case that documentation starts being generated well before the development. Bundle for titles in latex sections, contents and page styles jbezostitlesec. You may assign headersfooters to individual floats, too. If you want to have finer control on the parameters of the search you can use the advanced search form instead. The chemfig package has overhauled its styling options interface quite a bit. Generally, most of the packages are in the latex subdirectory, although other packages such as bibtex and font packages are found in other subdirectories in doc.
Software documentation for existing source code imagix. Confluence is the technical documentation software for todays team, giving every project and person their own space to document and share information. To keep it up to date, there is a program designed and developed by pi, the so called piupdatefinder. Participants agree that documentation tools should seek to better extract knowledge. Im trying to do a very simple task but im a beginner in latex, so i have some doubts. The package titlesec can do what you want, but you dont have to use it. The documentation either explains how the software operates or how. Technical teams may use docs to detail code, apis, and record their software. But try the documentation and examples of titlesec first, that packages provides many good features. This page contains references to core documentation about latex written by the latex team. They provide content creators with the requirements for information products and guide them through the process of developing such products. Introduction this package allows to change in a straightforward way the sectioning format of a document.
An optional argument for \title and \author is supported class amsart. The docusnap software solution faces just this challenge. Documentation is not made a priority and lacks of funding. While trying to generate the pdf documentation of a sphinx project, i get this. Thinking about it more, you have two possibilities.
Instead of chapter 1 introduction id like to have c h a p t e r 1. What we do is giving you an introduction on how to get started with the projectdoc toolbox and the software development addon to define your documentation requirements with confluence. Click2get software download packages documentation. The documentation directories have the same name of the package e. Latexinstalling extra packages wikibooks, open books for. Titletoc mackichan software the home of scientific workplace. The 8 types of technical documentation and why each. It documentation software or tools freeware spiceworks. Download the contents of this package in one zip archive 668. They can be used separately, but you will get most of them when used together. Maybe options ignore this warning at this point or ignore this warning in the future would help getting rid even of the warnings. The default behaviour of sphinx for english language is to use bjarne option to latex package fncychap for chapter headings. With all this basics settled the answer to how to document a software development project is organized by the following topics. Software package documentation engineering computer network.
Find out which documents you should write so that the development process runs smoothly. You write text and mathematics in your document without having to know a programming language or exit to an equation editor. How to document a software development project there is no onesizefitsall for documenting software projects. Technical documentation software with confluence atlassian. The titlesec and titletoc packages utrgv faculty web. The titlesec package is loaded only so headings are in sansserif bold in order to show the effect of the font changes. We have it locked down so only domain admins have access and thats where we keep documentation on the software the company uses and i recently added a patch panel map.
The relevance of software documentation, tools and. This directory holds 3 packages for sectioning titles when used as such titlesec, in headers and footers titleps and in tables of contents titletoc. For more details, you should read the additional documentation distributed with the package, as well as the complete documentation by processing hyperref. Docusnap provides a variety of solutions for creating a perfect it documentation and keeping it uptodate permanently.
And typeset documents with latex with just the click of a button. Working in software development, software maintenance or quality assurance, one of your least desirable and least rewarding tasks is creating documentation. Personally, i dont like the package that much, as the. Simple way to format section titles tex latex stack exchange. Modifying section titles using titlesectitletoc package post by centurion555.
After many attempts to reach him had failed, hendri adriaens took over maintenance of the package in accordance with the lppls procedure for abandoned packages. Lists of books and other resources in other languages are maintained by tex user groups in the respective countries. The titlesec package is a complete reimplementation for latex heading commands. Allow hyphenation of partiallyemphasised substrings.
The contents of ctan can be searched with fulltext search. The documentation either explains how the software operates or how to use it, and may mean different things to people in different roles. Tex live 2019 upgradejanuary 2020 overleaf, online latex. If you want to upgrade from red hat enterprise linux 6 to red hat enterprise linux 7, it is strongly recommended to remove all red hat software collections packages, perform the inplace upgrade, update the red hat software collections repository, and install the software collections packages again. Commands to organize a document vary depending on the document type, the simplest form of organization is the sectioning, available in all formats. Donald arseneau wont let me say what bits of sectsty he wrote, but id like to thank him anyway. Lack of a defined list of all types of documentation. German latex documentation maintained by german tex user group. We use our own product for as much as possible, and since its a way to create and share structured documents, it lends itself perfectly to this purpose. Software documentation, page 3, printed 71101 process and product documentation for large software projects, it is usually the case that documentation starts being generated well before the development process begins. The fncychap package has a set of alternative canned chapter headings.
Standards for software documentation are important tools for technical writers. Titlesec works with the standard classes and with many others, including the ams ones, and it. It works with the standard classes and with many others, including the ams ones. Transition of package maintenance the tex world lost contact with carsten heinz in late 2004, shortly after he released version 1. Project documentation basics software documentation is a large field to. Using package titlesec and define the headings by yourself entirely destroys template defaults, or use package sectsty and just change the. Create the software download package and specify the information related to the setup. If you want to upgrade from red hat enterprise linux 6 to red hat enterprise linux 7, it is strongly recommended to remove all red hat software collections packages, perform the inplace upgrade. In the menu, select operation catalogs service requests and select the software. The lipsum package provides some nonsense text for testing purposes. Documentation is an important part of software engineering. Overview email backups software computer labs online tools special projects web hosting ftp account hosting database. There are packages that do stuff, some do it well, some dont.
You write text and mathematics in your document without having to know a programming. To sort things out before developing a new product, weve compiled a list of technical documentation types with descriptions and software documentation best practices, commonly used by agile teams. The titlesec documention does have examples at the end, but they are too few, and do not cover the case im interested in. A disadvantage of using xelatex is that most of the fonts on your computer will not come with enough fancy characters known as glyphs for mathematics. It provides a way to change the typeset appearance of division headings such as chapter and section. It works with the standard classes and with many others, including. The package documentation has examples for all available styles. Oct 23, 2010 the titlesec package is loaded only so headings are in sansserif bold in order to show the effect of the font changes.
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