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+<chapter id="documentation">
+<title>Documentation</title>
+
+<para>
+Documention unfortunately belongs to the most-overlooked programming
+issues. Yet, once properly set up and maintained internal and external
+documentation provides most valuable help.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Documentation has multiple facets. There is
+<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <emphasis>project internal documentation</emphasis>, mainly consisting of
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <emphasis>comments</emphasis> in header/source files
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <emphasis>internal &API; documentation</emphasis> of your project
+ generated from the program file by special tools, &eg; &doxygen;
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <emphasis>project external documentation</emphasis>, comprising among others
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <emphasis>external &API; documentation</emphasis> of &eg; common system libraries (&kde;, &Qt;, &etc;)
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ any other documentation (programming language manuals, general system information, how-to articles and the like)
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+<para>
+All this documentation should be easily maintainable and ready at hand whenever you need it. &tdevelop; has provisions for just this.
+</para>
+
+<!-- ### doc browser, notes on internal documentation, how to profit from Doxygen -->
+
+<sect1 id="docbrowser">
+<title>The Documentation Browser</title>
+
+
+<figure id="screenshot-doctreeview" float="1">
+<title>A Screenshot of the Documentation Tree</title>
+<mediaobject>
+<imageobject><imagedata fileref="doctreeview.png"/></imageobject>
+</mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+</sect1> <!-- docbrowser -->
+
+</chapter> <!-- documentation -->