Re: [Boost-users] NewBie: help needed generating documentation with quickbook and bjam

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] NewBie: help needed generating documentation with quickbook and bjam
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-12 06:39:38

On 12 December 2010 11:03, Wilhelm <wilhelm.meier_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Just another question:
>
> is there a simple way to generate slides (html / pdf) with quickbook?

No, not a simple way. There is some docbook support for slides:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/current/doc/

Quickbook would have to be adapted to support the slide document type
(which would be pretty easy), then the build system would have to be
adapted to support this (might be easy for someone who understands
Boost Build better than I do) or you'd need to set up an alternative
build system (this could be pretty simple if you have a build system
that supports docbook, it could probably skip the boostbook to docbook
stage). After that, it'd probably require some tweaking since
quickbook is tailored towards documentation generation (could be done
with quickbook templates at first).

So it's possible, but you'd only want to do it if you're already
invested in quickbook.

Daniel