Q1: Should the workflow be so complicated? Is it possible to get simpler?
No, and don't know :-(
Bad news. :-)
Q2: I have installed/configured the following stuff:
-MikTeX -Doxygen -RenderX XEP -Ghostscript -DocBook-xml -DocBook-xsl -iconv -libxml -libxslt -xsldbg -zlib
Are they all must-have's? What are they all really for?
I added a diagram to the wiki yesterday that shows the workflow: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostDocs/GettingStarted, xsltproc is the main culprit becuase there's no easy installer for it on windows - you have to download all the libraries it depends on separately :-(
Of course most Linux boxes have all this stuff by default...
As I'm using WinXP, so I don't have that luck. So do all other Windows users. Is it possible to collect all the stuff somewhere in the boost package and add a simple tool that can deploy all of them automatically or semi-automatically? Anyway, the diagram is a great step forward, at least for me. Without it, all of the *Book stuff is a mess in my mind. :-) Thanks again. B/Rgds Max