Re: [boost] BOOST documentation in PDF/PS format

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-28 05:18:16

Daniel James wrote:
> On 27/05/2008, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> First the good news: some libraries already provide PDF's of their
>>  docs, for example the regex, math, type_traits and tr1 libraries
>>  all have links to the PDF versions of their docs from their title
>> pages.
>
> The pdf links in the math libraries are broken. If it's okay, I'll fix
> them in trunk and release.

Oh :-(

Looks like a missing // in the URL.

Yes please do go ahead and fix if you're willing that would be great.

>>  However, if anyone would like help getting their quickbook docs
>>  converted to PDF, I'm certainly willing to help with that as I have
>>  all the necessary tools etc set up here.
>
> I'd be interested in trying. Are there linux tools available? I think
> I remember you saying that the only decent ones were commercial.

Right, the only decent FO processor IMO is XEP, it's a Java app so I assume 
it'll work on Linux but I've never tried it.  There's a free edition 
available that places a discrete banner add at the bottom of each page - see 
the math docs for example.  Actually I seem to recall they offered Boost a 
free copy of the full product, but we never got our act together with 
somewhere to host it :-(

In any case XEP and Apache FOP are command line compatible so you easily 
switch between them in your user-config.jam, for simple use cases Apache FOP 
is fine, but it's pagination routines aren't nearly as good as XEP's for 
more complex situations.

HTH, John.