Re: [Boost-docs] Doc build stylesheet version?

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Doc build stylesheet version?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-22 02:29:30

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 2010/1/21 Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>:
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, not at all. It looks cygwin haven't updated their docbook-xsl
>>> package for years.
>>
>> Could you post a request to their mailing list for them to update it?
>
> I think I was mistaken, when I searched on their site I only found a
> version from 2005. But I just found an announcement that a recent
> version is in Cygwin 1.7:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/692
>
> Presumably, you'll get it if you upgrade cygwin to 1.7. Although, from
> their home page, it doesn't look like it's an easy upgrade.

I'm running 1.7. g++ on It fully supports wchar_t and wide strings, so
it was a "must have" upgrade for me. I just renamed /cygwin ->
cygwin-old, did a totally fresh install, and then copied over my old
home directory.

>
>> The SVN churn caused by the old-style HTML being generated is disconcerting.
>
> That's part of the reason I don't check any of my generated
> documentation in. Things should improve if I implement html generation
> in quickbook.
>
>> What is the tag for a paragraph? [p] doesn't work. I want the break
>> within a list, and just leaving an empty line doesn't work there
>> either.
>
> That's not really something you can do at the moment. I'd just use
> '[br]' for now.

That's what I did.

--Beman