Mallard is a

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for the creation of help pages and user documentation for applications (technical

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). Mallard 1.0 was released on 23 July 2013. Mallard is an

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language. Similar to

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, it defines the logical structure of a document. The documents are then displayed in a help browser, which creates links between the documents. Concepts such as guides and topics provide means for reaching help pages in different ways. At the moment, GNOME applications such as

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and others use Mallard for documentation purposes. Mallard is the preferred system for the Gnome Documentation. Mallard pages can be viewed in ''Yelp'', a GNOME help browser. Further output formats are planned that can be generated via the command line using the tools that are provided via

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References

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External links

* http://projectmallard.org/ project Mallard main page * https://github.com/projectmallard sources and tools at

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