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# Halibut User Manual

Halibut is a free (MIT-licensed) documentation production system, able to generate multiple output formats from the same input data. This document is its user manual.

This manual is copyright 2004-2017 Simon Tatham. All rights reserved. You may distribute this documentation under the MIT licence. See appendix A for the licence text in full.

- Chapter 1: Introduction to Halibut
  - 1.1 Output formats supported by Halibut
  - 1.2 Features supported by Halibut
- Chapter 2: Running Halibut
  - 2.1 Command-line options
- Chapter 3: Halibut input format
  - 3.1 The basics
  - 3.2 Simple inline formatting commands
  - 3.3 Paragraph-level commands
  - 3.4 Creating a bibliography
  - 3.5 Creating an index
  - 3.6 Configuring Halibut
  - 3.7 Defining macros
- Chapter 4: Halibut output formats
  - 4.1 Plain text
  - 4.2 HTML
  - 4.3 Windows HTML Help
  - 4.4 Legacy Windows Help
  - 4.5 Unix `man` pages
  - 4.6 GNU Info
  - 4.7 Paper formats
- Appendix A: Halibut Licence
- Appendix B: Halibut `man` page
  - B.1 NAME
  - B.2 SYNOPSIS
  - B.3 DESCRIPTION
  - B.4 OPTIONS
  - B.5 MORE INFORMATION
  - B.6 BUGS
- Index