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In the past, the creating of reference manuals for software was a laborious process. Whether command reference manuals or API (application programming interface) reference manuals, the effort of creating accurate and complete documentation for software products could be tedious and time-consuming. As software became more functional and the interfaces (from a development standpoint) more flexible, the size of this documentation grew.

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The advent of automatic generation tools, that could automatically generate the information was a major step in the creation of more accurate documentation and it held the promise of saving time and money. The effort of creating API reference documentation for software continues today and the growth of these automated tools also matures.

This page is included in this series to point out Web sites about existing automatic-generation (autogen) and automatically-generated documentation (autodoc) tools as well as articles about their use as well as articles about how to combine this automatically generated documentation along with the traditional human-authored documentation for a product.

Here are some lists of existing tools:

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Here are some citations

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