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Top 9 Open-Source Alternatives to DocBook

SILE MkDocs GitBook Tectonic typesetting Asciidoctor Docusaurus pandoc Wiki.js Natural Docs

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to DocBook are SILE, MkDocs, and GitBook. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
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    SILE is a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign, but seeks to be more flexible...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Project Management #Writing 12 social mentions

  2. 2
    Project documentation with Markdown.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 2 social mentions

  3. Modern Publishing, Simply taking your books from ideas to finished, polished books.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Management 2 social mentions

  4. A modernized, complete, standalone TeX/LaTeX engine.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Office Suites #Writing 1 social mentions

  5. In the spirit of free software, everyone is encouraged to help improve this project.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 23 social mentions

  6. Easy to maintain open source documentation websites
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Static Site Generators 192 social mentions

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    Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 1 social mentions

  8. An open source, modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js, Git, and Markdown.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #WiKi #Knowledge Base #Documentation 67 social mentions

  9. Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Documentation #Knowledge Base #Documentation As A Service & Tools

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