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Chapter 1: Introduction to Halibut

Halibut is a multi-format documentation processing system.

What that means is that you write your document once, in Halibut's input format, and then the Halibut program processes it into several output formats which all contain the same text. So, for example, if you want your application to have a Windows help file, and you also want the same documentation available in HTML on your web site, Halibut can do that for you.

1.1 Output formats supported by Halibut

Currently Halibut supports the following output formats:

Several other formats have been planned (notably PostScript, PDF and Unix info), but the need for them has not yet been urgent.

1.2 Features supported by Halibut

Here's a list of Halibut's notable features.

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