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

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Thank you Daniel James
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-04 11:48:21

> It's been a wish of mine, with some work done long ago towards it, to bring
> back some form of direct HTML generation. In particular to make quickbook
> backend generation programmable.

It's worth pointing out that it would be *very* hard to simulate the 
flexibility of the Docbook->HTML or Docbook->FO->PDF generators.  There 
are still many things you can do in Docbook that can't be done in 
quickbook, and yes, I use quickbook's "escape to docbook" feature quite 
a bit.  So for me at least it's worth going through the intermediate 
format(s) even though I'd be the first to admit that the XSLT processors 
are very slow, and don't scale to big docs well.

John.