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Subject: Re: [boost] location for PDF docs?
From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-05 13:57:52


 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
>[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Eric Niebler
>Sent: 05 November 2008 18:39
>To: boost_at_[hidden]
>Subject: Re: [boost] location for PDF docs?
>
>It would probably require "nothing more than" some XSLT hacking.
>Although I've recently become a little disillusioned with automatic
>documentation generation. There's just no substitute for doing
>it by hand.
>
>As for Quickbook, adding support for Docbook's <indexterm> is
>a trivial matter. I can do it in a day or two. Perhaps:
>
> [indexterm [primary][secondary]]
>
>where [secondary] is optional.

That sounds pretty useful to me - if much hard work for the document writer.

It would be very useful (while you are at it ;-)

if the PDF Subject and keywords fields could be filled.

And a ISBN and Dewey decimal library classification field could be added (like title authors, purpose ...) to aid getting these
documents into the normal library catalogs.

Thanks in advance ;-)

Paul

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