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

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Output of certain words with an underscore
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-04 12:42:20

On 10/4/2010 4:16 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>> 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.

Now I see that it is part of simple formatting in quickbook. I will 
escape the _ .