I've used POD as documentation. I've used HTML as documentation. I've used *roff as documentation. I've used LaTeX as documentation. I've used PDF as documentation. I still use the latter if I need to write something for a customer and it needs to look "fancy" (I write it in LaTeX, and translate the dvi to PDF).

But nowadays, I swear by plain ASCII documents. It's the only true platform independent format (yeah, there are non-ASCII platforms out there). Anyone can read it. Anyone can edit it. And just before you think "plain ASCII sucks, I need markup/images/whatever", realize that RFCs have been written in plain ASCII for more than 3 decades, and will be written in plain ASCII for quite some time. I can read RFC 1 (which was written in 1969 and contains "images") as easily as the newest RFC.

Plain ASCII rocks.

Abigail

In reply to Re: POD as a general documentation system by Abigail-II
in thread POD as a general documentation system by robartes

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