The world of technical writing has the phrase called structured authoring or structured content authoring. The concept of structured authoring is not new, fundamentals of it was first introduced in late 1960s/early 1970s. The process of structuring was common until advent of markup languages in 1990s. During early days of technical documentation, authors used to develop a style guide which was a documented approach on how to define the content in a formatted manner.
Below is some of the information related to structured authoring and how to implement it for authors benefit. It may be hard/time consuming to implement yet benefits in the form of quality, consistency, searchability, and overall flexibility of a structured environment will be well worth it.