Re: [boost] [1.38] Beta release of PDF documentation (and some helpneeded).

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.38] Beta release of PDF documentation (and some helpneeded).
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-09 05:49:26

>> SVN commit 51104 to trunk provides the basic support for building all the
>> Boost libraries that can be as PDF's:
>
> Nice - I've always liked PDF docs. One question, John - is there any
> intent to (at some point) somehow collate the individual PDFs into a
> single, 'Boost documentation' PDF document - or is that something
> that's trivially easy for the end-user to do once they have the
> individual files?

That would be one very big PDF ;-)

Seriously though the DocBook XSL stylesheets don't scale well to very large 
documents - and if one library's XML has a SNAFU then nothing builds :-(

That's why these will all be separate PDF's for the time being.

John.