<sect1 id="manuals-formats-intro">

    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>

        &TC;; provides support for different documentation formats,

        including Texinfo, LaTeX, DocBook and LinuxDoc. These formats

        have their own specifications and requirements to create and

        maintain documentation manuals written through them.  Inside

        &TCAR;, the <xref linkend="scripts-bash-help" /> functionality

        provides the interface you use to create and maintain

        documentation manuals without needing to take care the

        underlaying structuring tasks.

    </para>

    <para>

        This chapter describes how the 

        linkend="scripts-bash-help" /> functionality implements the

        different documentation source formats available inside &TC;;,

        and the internationalization issues related to documentation

        manuals produced through them.

    </para>

</sect1>