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arc42 by Example
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arc42 by Example

by Gernot Starke, Michael Simons, Stefan Zörner, Ralf D. Müller
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
236 pages
3h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6

VI - docToolchain

By Ralf D. Müller

docToolchain (https://doctoolchain.github.io/docToolchain/) initially began as the arc42-generator; that is, a Gradle build that converts the arc42 template from AsciiDoc to various other formats, such as Word, HTML, EPUB, and Confluence.

While working with AsciiDoc, I came up with several other little scripted tasks, which helped me in my workflow. These were added to the original arc42-generator and turned into what I now call "docToolchain."

The goal of docToolchain is to offer support to you, as a technical writer, with some repetitive conversion tasks, and also to enable you to implement the—sometimes quite complex—Docs-as-Code approach more easily.

I derived the name "docToolchain" from ...

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