Spirit docs template [was: V2 documentation format]

From: Christopher Currie (Christopher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-04 15:28:25

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Douglas Gregor wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 03 February 2004 05:24 pm, Christopher Currie wrote:
>>
>>>What we *may* end up doing is tweaking the stylesheets to create a
>>>different L&F. I'm pretty sure the existing stylesheets are designed to
>>>follow some Boost guidelines, but Zbynek's layout got some good reviews,
>>>so if possible we'd like to modernize them a little.
>>
>>If you happen to come up with a slick new look & feel that we can apply to
>>BoostBook, I wouldn't mind :). I'm actually a bit envious of Spirit's docs,
>>which look _very_ nice, but not envious enough to actually try to duplicate
>>what they've done :)
> 
> I too find Spirit docs to be very nice. I actually think it would be nice to 
> go ahead and steal at least the navigation arrors ;-)
> 
> As for other elements: like gradient background of examples, and so on, I just 
> have no idea how it's implemented and how hard it's to steal.

I don't either, but I'm willing to dive in and see...

Joel, any objection to BoostBook "borrowing" the Spirit docs template? 
Does Spirit use any document generator, or are they maintained by hand?

Christopher