Re: [boost] How to center an element in Boost QuickBook?

Subject: Re: [boost] How to center an element in Boost QuickBook?
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-09 05:14:14

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Rene Rivera
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 4:33 AM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] How to center an element in Boost QuickBook?
> 
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Joel de Guzman <djowel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> > On 8/8/13 10:55 PM, Niall Douglas wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> [def __tick__ [role aligncenter [role green \u2714]]] [def __cross__
> >> [role aligncenter [role red \u2718]]]
> >>
> >> The requisite CSS can be found appended to the bottom of this
> >> boostbook.css
> >>
> > That *IS* wonderful!
> >
> 
> ANother example of what can be done with quickbook+css manipulation with that role (and a bunch of
> other class and id attributes I added to the boostbook XSLT) take a look at N3700 <
http://www.open-
> std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3700.html>. It includes things like:
> 
> * Mixed styles per sections.
> * Mixed/explicit numbering of sections.
> * Embedded CSS
> * Repositioned doc info header
> * Automatic numbered paragraphs
> 
> Quickbook source code is at <
> https://github.com/grafikrobot/boost-tree/tree/master/proposal>. After the September meeting I'm
> hoping to clean up the CSS and template to make it reusable as a way to quickly write standards
> documents.

Truly Cool!

(Although the font size of code is a bit small compared to the text - and I am violently allergic to
red for comments - red is for warnings!)

This should be *really useful* for those tackling the ugly task of preparing Standard documents.

Automatic numbered paragraphs looks very useful (if you want numbered paragraphs ;-)

Will this also produce a pdf version as with other Quickbook docs?

Paul

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