Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Documentation Software

Documentation Software for Desktop Operating Systems

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    Doxygen
    Doxygen is a JavaDoc like documentation system for C++, C, Java and IDL.
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 636 This Week
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    cloc (Count Lines Of Code) counts, and computes differences of, comment lines, blank lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages. cloc is now being developed at https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
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    Downloads: 120 This Week
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    Msc-generator

    Msc-generator

    Draws signalling charts, block diagrams and graphs from text input.

    NOTE! We have moved to https://gitlab.com/msc-generator/msc-generator All development happens there. Also, download new releases & submit issues there. A tool to draw various charts from textual descriptions. Currently, three types of charts are supported: Message Sequence Charts, generic Graphs, and Block Diagrams, with more to be added in the future. There is a command-line version for Linux and Mac (replacing mscgen), which now sports a GUI, as well. Msc-generator allows fine control over the appearance and has a rich feature set complete with detailed documentation. On Windows, you can embed the charts in a document or presentation and simply double-click it in Office to edit them. On Linux and the Mac, a command-line version is available, and a GUI, as well. A .deb package is available starting from Debian Bookworm (currently testing) and Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) from the official repositories. For older releases see the Wiki. A Mac homebrew package is available.
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    Downloads: 44 This Week
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    ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts the documentation from your source code and formats it in HTML, RTF, TeX, XML DocBook (PDF), or ASCII. Works with C, C++, Fortran, Perl, Scripts, Assembler, Tcl, Basic, and any language that supports remarks.
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    helpdeco dissects HLP help files (WinHelp) of Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, and '95 and many MVB multi media viewer titles into all files required for a rebuild using the appropriate help compiler HC30, HC31, HCP, HCW, HCRTF, WMVC, MMVC or MVC.
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    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    XSL-FO Formatting markup WYSIWYG editor & PDF tree BookMark. XML document which is most often used as PDFs or RTF generator. It can read and edit 95% from Apache fop sample. Export to fo,pdf,rtf,tif fax, page, Import fo,html,page,odt OpenOffice 1-2
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Experimental browser that natively supports HTML, PDF, man pages, TeX DVI, scanned paper. Annotate with hyperlinks, highlights, notes, executable copy editor markup. [PDF tools for compress, impose, decrypt/encrypt, split/merge have been moved.]
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    Delphi : VRCalc++ and more Binary Exec

    Delphi : VRCalc++ and more Binary Exec

    Delphi Java - VRCalc++ OOSL (Script) and + (Binary Exec Distro)

    Vincent Radio {Adrix.NT} Embarcadero : Delphi : Executable Binaries Delphi : VRCalc++ Object Oriented Scripting Language : Engine + Ext Libraries VRCalc++ OOSL Visual Stage Project : VCL & FMX (FireMonkey) VRCalc++ Script Executor: - VCL Console - Terminal Console - FMX Console + VRCalc++ OOSL : VR System Scripted Standard Runtime Library Delphi Applics - VR Multi Editor : Smart Text Editor - VR Lazy Code Editor : Smart RTF Multi Lang Code Text Editor - VR Astro Vision : Astrology Program - VR Free Chess 2D : Chess Game Program - VR Mosaic : Puzzle Resolver Program (VCL, FMX) - VR Blocks game - VRGraphStage - VR TTT OX game - Embarcadero Binary Runtime Libraries - VR Binary Runtime Libraries for Delphi & C++Builder - Visual Styles Java Applications - Analog Clock - VR Hanoi Towers - VR Rects World Sample - VR Free Chess 2D - VR Mosaic with auto resolver - Action/Entity Model Test includes installation instructions adrixnt@hotmail.it
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    Ftagshtml

    Ftagshtml

    FORTRAN and Fortran 90 HTML browsing with indexes.

    Ftagshtml converts fortran code into HTML in order to browse and navigate in the call tree for any routine or abstract fortran 90 interface. Compatible with basic C analysis, mixing with fortran 77 and 90.
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    My Dream Diary is a computer diary, that allows you to create and manage descriptions of dreams. Password protection, archiving, statistics, dream signs are the basic functions of this program.
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    crystal-facet-uml

    crystal-facet-uml

    Create consistent Uml diagrams

    As software architect, you create a set of diagrams describing use-cases, requirements, structural views, behavioral and deployment views. crystal_facet_uml keeps element names and element hierarchies consistent. It exports diagrams in svg, pdf, ps and png formats to be used in text processing systems like docbook, html, latex. This tool runs on your local PC and is based on glib, gdk, gtk, cairo, pango, sqlite.
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    A POSIX GUI file viewer capable of displaying manual pages and maintaining document meta-data (highlighting and bookmarks) per user per file; a local socket server for easy integration with other software, text can be processed with shell commands.
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    To investigate, describe and develop methods and approaches to generating maps with computers. This is not another GIS project. This one is focused on how to develop programs which make useful end user maps and programs using map backgrounds.
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    TEdit

    TEdit

    TEdit is a simple Text Editor who saves and openes .txt Files.

    TEdit is a simple Text Editor who saves and openes .txt Files. At the moment the programm is in pre-apha phase. I would greatly appreciate help with the development.
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    yz-next-apyref

    yz-next-apyref

    Arno-Can's Python based API Reference Generator.

    Multi-Syntax-Version and Multi-Implementation API reference documentation generator. Supports local and remote sources.
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    Commentary is intended to be an easy-to-use, easy-to-expand comment extractor that can be made to work with any language supporting block comments. Output is XML, so your final documentation can conform to any stylistic standards you require.
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    DocScript is an approach to document preparation. It presents tools and utilities to edit and publish documents. The philosophy behind the DocScript project is to utilize the programming tools you're working with anyway in your daily work.
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    Doxygen filters for these programming languages: R from GNU, q from kx.com, MatLab from MathWorks. These programs are implemented in C++ using Flex++. They provide full inline sources not just function definitions.
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    EDoC++ is both a lint-like tool and a documentation tool that specialises in analysing and documenting the use of exceptions in C++ code.
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    GNotes

    GNotes

    专为开发者打造的笔记本应用程序

    MyBooklet是专为开发者打造的笔记本应用程序,在很多时候会发觉自己的一些笔记或者源代码比较难以分类和维护,因为有可能一段笔记或者代码涉及方面很多,这时候通过传统的文件夹来划分比较困难,使用MyBooklet可以解决这些问题,其提供强大的文章编辑功能和集中式管理,并提供标签功能便于快速查询笔记。
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    Global Translation and Localisation Team
    Translation team with the primary objective to translate and maintain the translations of some useful SourceForge.net Projects. GUI and CLI applications, PHP, Java and Documentation for Linux, Apple MAC & BSD and Windows. More info on our homepage.
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    <b>JAVA LOGGING API that targets:<br> - Simplicity (1 line to init & log, no external objects)<br> - Maintability (auto monthly & yearly archives)<br> - Performance (bckg min priority thread pool)<br> - Extensibility (simple design)<br> Try it!</b>
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    This Project supports Japanese supplements and patches for Apache FOP.
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    Web system in JSF and Hibernate to dynamically import , store in DB , search and display javadoc from source. Downloads & versioning. Testing sections to help students prepare for certification exams (JSCP, SCWCD,etc) ( MySQL, Geronimo 2.1.4 ).
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