Re: [boost] Generating Boost documentation with pandoc

Subject: Re: [boost] Generating Boost documentation with pandoc
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-07-22 14:16:17

On 7/22/16 9:39 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> On 22.07.2016 12:31, Robert Ramey wrote:
>>
>> Executive summary:  Boost Book is converted by xsltproc to generate
>> pdf.  Try enhancing it to generated epub as well.
>
> Yes, the pipeline is BoostBook -> DocBook -> [HTML, PDF, etc.], so
> generating EPub should be a matter of tuning the last step in that workflow.
> (As I mentioned earlier, I still have plans to move a substantial chunk

> of BoostBook into DocBook itself, to make it available to users outside
> Boost and to reduce the maintenance cost for the Boost community. But
> that will take time...)

I'm really not getting this idea at all. What does this mean?  Going 
back an re-editing all the xml based on BoostBook?  I can't see the 
point of that as we already have an xsltproc script which does BoostBook 
-> DocBook.

Maybe I just didn't understand what you mean.

Robert Ramey