Re: Documentation best practices

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On 26 Mar 2015 at 09:52, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> I know this isn't strictly PHP, but I thought the collective knowledge here is
> better than what I'll get on stack overflow!
>
> Basically, I have a project I'm working on in my spare time, and so far have
> been documenting the whole thing in one large readme on github. A print
> preview puts it at ~16 pages.
>
> The project has a lot of scope for growth, so documentation will only
> increase.
>
> My question is, when does it become worth breaking one large document into
> several smaller chunks? What are your own views on this? Has anyone had a
> similar issue in the past?

My internal doc for my project is now 36 pages long and has always been a Pages [1] document with ToC, images, chapters, sections, and diagrams. If anyone were to ask me for it I'd send it them as a pdf.

I'd say your doc is already large enough to need structuring. Forcing yourself to do that, I find, also assists with the project itself, because if you've implemented something in a slightly clumsy way, you may go back and redo it just to make the doc easier to write :-)

[1] which unlike Word doesn't sometimes hide images in the cracks between pages.

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