Re: [boost] [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Thank you Daniel James

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Thank you Daniel James
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-04 11:12:53

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Glen Fernandes wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> >> > Thank Daniel for the continued work on Quickbook.
> >>
> >> Seconded.
> >
> >
> > Is there a tutorial somewhere that explains how, given a .qbk file, one
> > obtains viewable .html in the simplest possible way?
>
> I think once you have it installed [1], all you have to do is 'b2 release' 
> in the doc directory.
>
> [1] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/quickbook/install.html

Forgive the stupid question, but why does quickbook generate boostbook xml, 
which then generates html, instead of quickbook generating html directly?

I do know that boostbook can do PDF as well, but in the common case the 
developer running quickbook doesn't need a PDF.