Helper tools for writing Documentation

Description

Tools and Plugins which will help to write documentation.

Online tools:

Offline tools:

ReText is a handy editor for .rst and .md formats. On Ubuntu and Debian-based systems all you have to do is 

apt-get install retext

Pandoc If you have existing documentation, you may want to check out pandoc , the "swiss army knife" of document conversions. For instance, it can create valid rst files from Markdown and quite a number of other formats. On Ubuntu you can install it via apt 

apt-get install pandoc

There is also a online version.

Sublime Text has a number of plugins for rst highlighting and snippets, install via the Sublime package installer.

One particular which is really good for getting a impression how it will looks like in html is OmniMarkupPreviewer a live previewer/exporter for markup files (markdown, rst, creole, textile...).

Emacs has a nice rst-mode. This mode comes with some Emacs distros. Try M-x rst-mode in your Emacs and enjoy syntax coloration, underlining a heading with ^C ^A

Another nice tool for Emacs is Flycheck.

Eclipse users can install ReST Editor through the Eclipse Marketplace.

Vim does syntax highlighting for RST files. There is also a nice plugin with enhanced functionalities called Riv.

restview ReStructuredText viewer A viewer for ReStructuredText documents that renders them on the fly. 

pip install restview

Language tools:

These tools can help you to check for grammatical mistakes and typos, you should always use a spell checker anyway!

LanguageTool is an Open Source proof­reading software for English, French, German, Polish, and more than 20 other languages.

After the Deadline is a language checker for the web. This handy tool is also available in your Plone sites, by the way, see the conent quality section