AFAIK Perl6 will be extending POD with some more features rather than abandoning it. Some of the Perl6 RFCs may give you some idea of what POD will turn into - but I imagine Larry et al will come up with something more interesting than the sum of the suggestions given so far.

I would seriously consider LaTeX. You can always use a subset and since it's turing complete you can make it do pretty much what you like. Create a custom set of macros to do what you need and no more.

Docbook may be worth looking at. There is also Simplified DocBook if you need something more basic.

Finally, creating a custom XML DTD for your documentation is always an option. However, I find that these rapidly turn into XHTML if you're not careful ;-)

My projects tend to be Perl. So I use POD for the perl code, and Docbook for the non-code docs.

In reply to Re: What's the best plain Documentation format? by adrianh
in thread What's the best plain Documentation format? by gmpassos

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