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

    <title>Introduction</title>
    
    <para>
        &TCD; 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 <xref
        linkend="scripts-bash-help" /> functionality implements the
        different documentation source formats available inside &TCD;,
        and the internationalization issues related to documentation
        manuals produced through them.
    </para>

</sect1>