There
is an increasing trend towards producing manuals and other
documentation in electronic format instead of the traditional
hard copy. Electronic format documentation offers benefits
and flexibility with the ease of distribution via web
sites, intranets, email attachements and CD-ROM, providing
compact storage all at a fraction of the cost of its hard
copy competitor.
Features
of electronic publications include:-
-
hypertext links to web sites
- appplication
launch links
- graphical
expanding and collapsing navigation trees
- index
and word search facilities
- ease
of navigation for users
Two
common solutions for electronic documentation are:-
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