Stefan Seefeld wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
on Sun Jun 24 2007, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld-AT-sympatico.ca> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
There several WYSWYG editors producing DocBook (and I don't need to enter markup at all!) and this trend is going to grow. Yeah, but we need to represent semantic information (e.g. Concepts)
on Sat Jun 23 2007, "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental-AT-thomson.com> wrote: that are outside the builtin representational abilities of DocBook. DocBook is designed for extensibility. I know. That's why I said *builtin*.
BoostBook is just an extension of DocBook, using expressly-designed hooks in DocBook for that purpose. I don't consider that an NIH move on our part; quite the contrary.
Yes, understood. With NIH I'm not referring to BoostBook, but to QuickBook, which is neither an extension to DocBook, nor ReST. Thus, no existing parser will work with it, no existing documentation will help, and no existing community can answer questions and help resolve issues.
Let me repeat the point about QuickBook I made earlier, since you seem to have missed it:
I needed something that would let me write docs fast in a plain text editor, with cross-links to a reference section generated by Doxygen. I wasn't aware of any tool that fit that description. I'm still not.
And later I asked:
I've never used ReST. I know Dave has. Can I cross-link to a Doxygen-generated section?
I never saw a response. I'm all for using ReST, as long as it does what I need it to do. So does it? -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com