Top 15 DocBook Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

DocBook is a schema (available in several languages including RELAX NG, SGML and XML DTDs, and W3C XML Schema) maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).

Because it is a large and robust schema, and because its main structures correspond to the general notion of what constitutes a “book,” DocBook has been adopted by a large and growing community of authors writing books of all kinds. DocBook is supported “out of the box” by a number of commercial tools, and there is rapidly expanding support for it in a number of free software environments. These features have combined to make DocBook a generally easy to understand, widely useful, and very popular schema. Dozens of organizations are using DocBook for millions of pages of documentation, in various print and online formats, worldwide. ...

1. Pollen

Pollen Pollen is a publishing system that helps authors create beautiful and functional web-based books. Pollen includes tools for writing, designing, programming, testing, and publishing.......

2. LaTeX

LaTeX LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to create a document in LaTeX, a .tex file must be......

3. Typefi

Typefi Typefi Publish is a automated publishing platform that provides collaborative, enterprise wide publishing without sacrificing design quality. Typefi Publish saves your organization time, hassle and effort while streamlining your publishing projects and enhancing accuracy.......

4. UberWriter

UberWriter With UberWriter it’s simple to write beautiful documents in Markdown.Features include 'focus mode' that highlights your last sentence and gives you a typewriter-esque feel, out of the box spellcheck, and a very clean interface. There is a fullscreen mode which gives you a whole, white page. And the best: Inline......

5. FeedPress

FeedPress FeedPress handles the RSS Feed of your website, blog or Podcast and offers advanced statistics about your feed's subscribers as well as the ability to offer Newsletter subscriptions. You can automatically publish your new entries on your social networks accounts like Twitter, Facebook, App.net. & easily migrate from FeedBurner without......

6. Talon

Talon Capture any website and edit it instantly with Aviary.com applications. You can capture full web pages, or just the portion you need. Talon works seamlessly (and by default) with our markup editor Falcon, but you can customize it to open new screenshots in any tool of your choice.Available for Chrome......

7. Scribus

Scribus Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application. Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books.......

8. Megazine3

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9. FlippingBook Publisher

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10. XML

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11. YAML

YAML YAML 1.2---YAML: YAML Ain't Markup LanguageWhat It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.......

12. txt2tags

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13. Lucidpress

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14. MultiMarkdown

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15. Texy!

Texy! Texy! is a lightweight markup language as well as converter of this format to XHTML, in a form of a library written in the PHP scripting language. It allows the user to write structured documents without knowledge or using of HTML language. Users write documents in human-readable text format and......