Re: [boost] [quickbook] Using .. for content in templates

Subject: Re: [boost] [quickbook] Using .. for content in templates
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-24 10:50:20

On 24 January 2013 15:26, Andreas Pokorny <andreas.pokorny_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2013/1/24 Andreas Pokorny <andreas.pokorny_at_[hidden]>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We now integrated plantuml into the quickbook / docbook - toolchain.
>> plantuml uses text based inputs to declare UML diagrams.
>
>
> PS: plantuml uses dot for layout - by running dot with a simplified
> diagram, parsing the svg result
> and creating a skinned and beautified svg/png/whatever as output.
> Given the hack I used in the
> build system to run plantuml on the intermediate output. It would be
> nicer if quickbook would
> provide that by using dots layouting library directly.. Just in case
> there is some free time to kill..

That's probably too much for me. But if anyone wants to integrate
their code into quickbook, I might be able to do something. Perhaps we
could have a very limited extension system, where a chunk of text is
fed through a function, or maybe an executable?