John Maddock wrote:
The release candidate for the PDF build of the 1.38 docs is now available from http://boost.cowic.de/rc/pdf/, unless anyone spots any last minute issues, I'll put these on sourceforge at the weekend.
If you look at the toolset table in bjam.pdf, pages 3-5. There is some text which is "jumbled" on some of the rightmost cells. And in other of those right most cells it compresses the text. I guess for the former it's compressing the text so much that the letter overrun each other. No idea how that might be fixed... But going ahead and posting the PDFs even with that problem is OK by me.
Ah good catch, looks like XEP is being extra clever and compressing preformatted text to ensure it doesn't run off the page... I don't see any easy way to fix this - basically the table is too big/wide for print formatting, and although it's technically possible to generate landscape tables - they can't run over more than one page (there are problems getting the necessary formatting attributes onto the XML as well). I think in the long run, since the first column is mostly empty, could this table be split into 2 tables with just 3 columns each: one for build.bat on Windows and one for build.sh on Unix? Thanks, John.