What is the best toolkit for writing long technical texts?

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Published on 2011-02-13T13:43:36Z Indexed on 2011/02/13 15:32 UTC
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I'm looking for a toolkit in the form of one or a couple of applications that can be used to write long technical texts (such as an introduction to a programming language).

What applications (or combination of) are suitable for this?
How should said applications be setup (for example how would one setup MS Word to best fit writing a technical text)?
How do you deal with source code, syntax coloring and formatting?
In the case of it being several applications, how do you interact between them?

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