Automatic Generation of Usage Manuals for Open-Source Software

Recently, the Open Source Software (OSS) has become used at many places. Even the installation and initial configuration of an OSS can be difficult for novice users, because there are few documents and manuals. To address this problem, we have proposed an automatic generation method of installation/configuration manuals for OSS. However, in the conventional system, an installation manual and a configuration manual are managed as an individual file. Therefore, the conventional system had bad convenience. We integrate an installation manual and a configuration manual and define this as an OSS usage manual. When integrate manuals, it is necessary to give a priority and to show information. When the size of a Web manual is changed by the user, a layout changes and visibility falls. In order to solve this problem, we applied to the web-page layout optimization method to proposed manuals.