Re: [Boost-build] Two more Boostbook build niggles

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-04 15:26:54

On Monday 24 September 2007 14:42:08 John Maddock wrote:
> Rene,
> 
> While I've got your attention I've two more Boostbook bbv2 niggles, sorry!
> 
> 1) Is there a way to restrict xslt param's to specific build-types only - so 
> I can have different pdf and html settings: .png's for one and .svg's for 
> the other for example?  I've tried adding
> 
> <toolset>pdf:<xsl:param>admon.graphics.extension=".svg"

Try

        <format>pdf:<xsl:param>admon.graphics.extension=".svg"

As 'format' is the real name of that feature.

> 2) PDF generation is really annoying me: it insists on placing the generated 
> PDF and FO files in an "unmentionable" directory under bin.v2/ which means 
> all relative links to image files get broken, and no images are embedded in 
> the PDF.  Currently the option is to manually copy images into whatever 
> directory bjam puts the FO file: which varies depending upon what compiler 
> you have as your default toolset :-(  Would it be possible for the FO and 
> PDF files to be placed in a subdirectory called say "pdf" of the current 
> build directory, just like html/man pages etc are?  Then links to images 
> would be found when the PDF is built, as would links to admonishments in 
> boost-root/doc/.
> 
> I should say at this point, that I've raised this before with Vladimir and 
> he's dead set against such a change, 

Is it possible to specify 'include' path for FOP?

- Volodya