The Book

Overview
The Syslab Book is a documentation project numerous years in the works, with contributions from Andy Barros, Matthew Colyer, Andrew Deason, Susan Ditmore, Jeffrey Grafton, John Livingston, Ilia Mirkin, Kyle Moffett, and Dan Tran. Prior to Livedoc, this was essentially the only documentation on the syslab.

Format
The Book uses DocBook format for all of its pages (which is SGML, but mostly looks like XML). It was thought by some to be a rather cumbersome format to update and use in general, which is one of the reasons Livedoc exists.