Re: [boost] RE: [Poll] New look-n-feel for Boost documentation

From: Manfred Doudar (manfred.doudar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-30 03:30:45

Vladimir Prus wrote:

>Reid Sweatman wrote:
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
>>>[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Manfred Doudar
>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:12 PM
>>>To: boost_at_[hidden]
>>>Subject: Re: [boost] [Poll] New look-n-feel for Boost documentation
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>>>Eric Niebler wrote:
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>>>>Joel de Guzman and I, with the help of many smart folks on the
>>>>boost-docs list[*], have been working on improving the
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>>>look-n-feel of
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>>>>Boost's documentation. We're ready to commit the new style,
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>>>but wanted
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>>>>to check here first.
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>>>>Volodya was good enough to put up a copy of Boost's docs
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>>>with the new
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>>>>style applied. You can preview them here:
>>>>http://zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su/~ghost/boost_docs/
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>>>>Please say whether you like the new style or not. If not,
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>>>be specific
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>>>>about why.
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>>>Speaking strictly as a user of these pages, I think it's
>>>definitely an
>>>improvement, much cleaner, and better from where we were.
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>>>I would however suggest that an option (and only as an option) be
>>>provided to view a chapter in one page rather than having to navigate
>>>back and forth (with <- , -> at the bottom of the pages).
>>>Even better
>>>still, the "Table of Contents" for each chapter, if it were
>>>to appear on
>>>each page of the chapter would be very desirable, most useful and
>>>convenient.
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>>I agree, especially with the remark concerning a single-page option; why
>>not
>>turn that into a "print version" if possible?  
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>Does ability to generate PDF output amounts to "print version"? Personally,
>I find PDF output which can be printed with one click one of the killer
>features of BoostBook.
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As long as we can print that's ok by me, but on the otherhand, it's 
always a convenience to be printer-friendly with HTML

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Manfred Doudar
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