Re: [boost] Escape to HTML from QuickBook

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-21 01:23:37

Alex Besogonov wrote:
> Good <time-of-day>!
> 
> I'm trying to write documentation for my project in QuickBook and I have 
> a little question: is it possible to escape to direct HTML markup from 
> QuickBook (or BoostBook) source?

I think not. BoostBook/DocBook is a document format that outputs
to different back-ends (e.g. HTML, PDF). It in itself should not
know about the details of the back-ends. How would the html markup
apply to PDF, for example?

> I'm trying to add imagemap as, for example, in this article:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxgrfAutomationObjectModelChart.asp
> 
> BTW, I've  added support for VisualBasic and IDL syntax highlighting to 
> QuickBook. I can send patches if anyone is interested in it.

Definitely. Let us have it :)

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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