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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] New doc format.
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-20 16:37:20


On 1/14/18 2:35 PM, Rene Rivera via Boost-build wrote:
> After asking about documentation tools some months back I ended up doing
> a full "trial" with asciidoctor to see how it would work out for the new
> B2 documentation. I realize that others had ideas as to what might be a
> better tool. But after looking into some others I decided asciidoctor
> was the least effort to attempt to change to. And that the features,
> with regards to B2, where sufficiently equivalent with the other top
> contenders.

Is this about new b2 documentation or new format/way of presentation?

I'm very happy with the boost book approach.

I've always been of the the view that B2 documenation content would
benefit from some investment of effort.

Doing both of the above in one shot seems a bad idea to me.

Robert Ramey


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