Deane Yang <deane_yang@yahoo.com> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
Lots of reasons: easier installation, I happen to know it really well since we wrote C++TMP in it, more sensible parsing rules, I have complete and working emacs syntax coloring (makes a huge difference), shorter toolchain, a great path to PDFs (please don't say "FOP").
Are all of these things already available in boost somewhere?
I don't understand what you mean. What things?
Is it possible for me to set all of this up, too?
Sorry, you'll have to be more specific.
I also use docutils and emacs, and I would like to generate PDF documentation. I tried writing my own bjam files to convert from rst to latex to pdf, but I'm not particularly good at this.
That's the path. 'Till now I've used a Makefile for that purpose, but only because I haven't had the time to set up BBv2 to generate pdfs; it would probaby be easy. See http://boost.org/libs/iterator/doc/GNUmakefile for a hint ;-)
I just found docutils.jam, but I'm not sure whether I have to do anything special to make sure that the docutils scripts are found.
If your docutils is installed (e.g. in your Python's site-packages), it's just using docutils ; but I think I only ever wrote RST->HTML support in docutils.jam. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com