Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Breaking a line

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Breaking a line
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-25 09:02:41

> How does one break a line, so that succeeding text starts on another line, 
> in quickbook ?
>
> I do not want a new paragraph just to break a line, since this puts out a 
> blank line in between.
>
> Using either [br] or \n to break the line gives a deprecate warning every 
> time.
>
> There should be a means to break a line in quickbook without getting a 
> deprecate warning each time, so either [br] or \n should not give a 
> deprecate warning, or some other means to break a line in quickbook 
> without creating a new paragraph should be documented.

The issue is that there is no such mechanism in docbook - a [br] is really a 
presentation issue, not a structural one, and docbook deals with structure 
not presentation.

John.