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Halibut User Manual

Halibut is a free (MIT-licensed) documentation production system, able to generate multiple output formats from the same input data. This document is its user manual.

This manual is copyright 2004-2007 Simon Tatham. All rights reserved. You may distribute this documentation under the MIT licence. See appendix A for the licence text in full.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Halibut
  • 1.1 Output formats supported by Halibut
  • 1.2 Features supported by Halibut
• Chapter 2: Running Halibut
  • 2.1 Command-line options
• Chapter 3: Halibut input format
  • 3.1 The basics
  • 3.2 Simple inline formatting commands
  • 3.3 Paragraph-level commands
  • 3.4 Creating a bibliography
  • 3.5 Creating an index
  • 3.6 Configuring Halibut
  • 3.7 Defining macros
• Chapter 4: Halibut output formats
  • 4.1 Plain text
  • 4.2 HTML
  • 4.3 Windows Help
  • 4.4 Unix man pages
  • 4.5 GNU info
  • 4.6 Paper formats
• Appendix A: Halibut Licence
• Appendix B: Halibut man page
  • B.1 NAME
  • B.2 SYNOPSIS
  • B.3 DESCRIPTION
  • B.4 OPTIONS
  • B.5 MORE INFORMATION
  • B.6 BUGS
• Index