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You might consider some sort of wiki software. MediaWiki (Wikipedia) and Confluence are two popular ones. They have the revision control and multiple editor sup
by sehugg 14y ago
You might consider some sort of wiki software. MediaWiki (Wikipedia) and Confluence are two popular ones. They have the revision control and multiple editor support you're looking for. They can also be customized to add the bonus features you're looking for.
The downside is that you'll be administering a server and customizing it on an ad-hoc basis while you figure out how to organize the content and make it spit out the PDF format you're envisioning (that you might not be able to get perfect) and teaching everyone else how to use it properly. It might not even be appropriate if these procedures will be used once and then discarded.
The upside is that it's not Word.
- jamesmontalvo3 14y agoWe currently use Semantic MediaWiki for knowledge management. I've been considering creating an extension for it to handle procedure writing, but as you said I can't imagine getting it perfect. I feel like it would always be somewhat of a hack. As for "these procedures will be used once and then discarded": that's not really an issue. Most procedures would not be used just once, since we'd reference a procedure for installing hardware if we ever needed to remove it. Procedures used to fix something will be reused if it breaks again.