Docbook
I’m hooked on DocBook.
Docbook is a form of XML meant for writing documents. You
write up your document using XML tags: Here’s the title of my
document, here’s part one, here’s part two, here’s a footnote.
Then you use an XML transformation tool to take your Docbook
XML file and transform it into a nice readable format like HTML,
PDF, or RTF. Or all three. The conversion tools do the grunt
work for you, setting up footnotes and internal links, creating
a table of contents, and all the other mundane tasks that make
creating and maintaining documentation such a chore.
This is particularly nice for something like your
resume, which, if you’re like me, you
begrudgingly maintain multiple versions of. With
Docbook, you only have to maintain one file. Then you
convert it to whatever formats you want for publication.
