Which Single Source Publishing tools and strategies are available?

Which Single Source Publishing tools and strategies are available?

I'm about to write a 1000-Pages Documentation about a huge programming framework. The goal is to bring this documentation online into an web platform, so that online users can search through it and read it online. At the same time, the text has to be made public in PDF format for download. And at the same time, the whole thing needs to go into a printed book as well (print on demand, they want a giant PDF file with the whole book).

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Guest [Entry]

"Some help documentation apps may give you what you're looking for. ""Help and Manual"" is an excellent program, probably best of the lot, and a great bargain. Let's you publish your documentation project in any of a number of ofrmats, including html and pdf.

See web page at: http://helpandmanual.com"

Guest [Entry]

"Depending on how much/how little you want to tweak the final pdf layout asciidoc might be worth to look at.

It's input files are very human-readable text files, so you could make your document available not only as pdf or webpage, but also as plain text. It is also capable of generating xml which can be rendered with custom stylesheets to numerous output formats like epub or info files.

There are some examples on the asciidoc homepage."