Re: [Boost-build] New doc format.

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] New doc format.
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-21 02:33:57

On 1/20/18 2:25 PM, Steven Watanabe via Boost-build wrote:

>    The boostbook toolchain is one of the oldest, most
> complex, and brittle tools in b2.  It does lots of
> things in bizarre and non-idiomatic ways and is
> really in need of a complete overhaul.

Save yourself some agony just make a couple of shell scripts.  This is 
all I need to do once I had the tools installed.

if test x = x$BOOST_ROOT
then
     echo BOOST_ROOT not set
     exit 1
fi
#use -r switch on fop for relaxed validation
xsltproc --xinclude --nonet bb2db.xsl safe_numerics.xml \
| fop -r -dpi 300 -xsl db2fo.xsl -xml - -pdf ../safe_numerics.pdf

Robert Ramey