Escape to HTML from QuickBook
Good <time-of-day>! I'm trying to write documentation for my project in QuickBook and I have a little question: is it possible to escape to direct HTML markup from QuickBook (or BoostBook) source? I'm trying to add imagemap as, for example, in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/ht... BTW, I've added support for VisualBasic and IDL syntax highlighting to QuickBook. I can send patches if anyone is interested in it. -- With respect, Alex Besogonov (cyberax@elewise.com)
Alex Besogonov wrote:
Good <time-of-day>!
I'm trying to write documentation for my project in QuickBook and I have a little question: is it possible to escape to direct HTML markup from QuickBook (or BoostBook) source?
I think not. BoostBook/DocBook is a document format that outputs to different back-ends (e.g. HTML, PDF). It in itself should not know about the details of the back-ends. How would the html markup apply to PDF, for example?
I'm trying to add imagemap as, for example, in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/ht...
BTW, I've added support for VisualBasic and IDL syntax highlighting to QuickBook. I can send patches if anyone is interested in it.
Definitely. Let us have it :) Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net
"Alex Besogonov" wrote
I'm trying to write documentation for my project in QuickBook and I have a little question: is it possible to escape to direct HTML markup from QuickBook (or BoostBook) source?
I'm trying to add imagemap as, for example, in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/ht...
FWIW I wanted to do this too. I found the laziest solution was to provide a link to an external html file containing the map. After a brief look in the DocBook documentation, I believe that DocBook can achieve similar functionality to a HTML map but it will take some searching though the documentation to unearth the details. regards Andy Little
(Cross-posting to boost-docs. Future messages in this thread should be directed there.) Andy Little wrote:
"Alex Besogonov" wrote
I'm trying to write documentation for my project in QuickBook and I have a little question: is it possible to escape to direct HTML markup from QuickBook (or BoostBook) source?
I'm trying to add imagemap as, for example, in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/ht...
FWIW I wanted to do this too. I found the laziest solution was to provide a link to an external html file containing the map. After a brief look in the DocBook documentation, I believe that DocBook can achieve similar functionality to a HTML map but it will take some searching though the documentation to unearth the details.
Looks like <mediaobjectco> is what you want: http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/mediaobjectco.html From QuickBook, you'll need to escape to BoostBook and write your image map using mediaobjectco XML tags. It's never been tried before, so it's anybody's guess what our XSL transforms will make of these tags. -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com
Alex Besogonov <cyberax@elewise.com> writes:
Good <time-of-day>!
I'm trying to write documentation for my project in QuickBook and I have a little question: is it possible to escape to direct HTML markup from QuickBook (or BoostBook) source?
I'm trying to add imagemap as, for example, in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/ht...
BTW, I've added support for VisualBasic and IDL syntax highlighting to QuickBook. I can send patches if anyone is interested in it.
Alex, This is interesting, but you should probably take it to the boost-docs mailing list. Regards, Dave -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com
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