Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Output of certain words with an underscore

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Output of certain words with an underscore
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-04 08:16:26

> In my quickbook document I use certain words which have an underscore, but 
> the final html documentation output shows underscores dropped. The words 
> and there final html documentation are:
>
> __VA_ARGS__ becomes __VAARGS_
> BOOST_VMD_ become BOOSTVMD
>
> Other words with an underscore are output correctly, such as 
> BOOST_NO_VARIADIC_MACROS. So it seems as if words with underscores at the 
> beginning or the end of the word are getting incorrect output. Does 
> anybody know how to correct this ?

It's not a feature I've ever used, but I believe _underscore_ is used to 
underline a word in quickbook, so escaping the _'s should do the trick - or 
else do as I do and make symbols like this code snippets with 
`__VA_ARGS__` - depends how you want them formatted.

HTH, John.