Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] [style] adjusting the text column width

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] [style] adjusting the text column width
From: Julian Gonggrijp (j.gonggrijp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-27 18:17:13

First of all, thank you for the reply. :-)

I was afraid my email might have given a bit of a pedantic impression, 
if that's the case I hereby apologize.

John Maddock wrote:

> You are of course free to set the stylesheet to something other than "boost.css" when generating your docs.

You say "when generating your docs". Does that mean passing some 
argument on the command line, or adding a line to the BoostBook XML 
file, or to the QuickBook file? Or did you actually mean "You are of 
course free to edit the output HTML files in order to link to another 
stylesheet"? ;-)

>> At the option of the maintainers, this email may also be considered a
>> request for a permanent change to the Boost stylesheets, because I
>> think all Boost documentation would improve considerably if the column
>> width were constrained to about 80en or about 600px.
> 
> That actually might not be a bad idea, as to how to go about it, I have no idea :-(

I'm glad that you're open to the idea, anyway. :-)

> It might also require a bit of fiddling around to prevent code and tables from overflowing to the right, or looking all cramped up... sometimes you need the width!

Yes that's absolutely true. I guess I'll just try to make it work in a 
proper way, and if it works out I'll post a patch for the Boost 
stylesheet. No idea when I'm really going to do that, though.

Cheers,
-Julian