<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 an interface where documentation format

        specifications have been already considered for you to be able

        of creating and maintaining documentation manuals without

        needing to take care of those 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>