Re: Sphinx integration

Dave Abrahams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.documentation
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on Fri Oct 07 2011, "Paul A. Bristow" <pbristow-AT-hetp.u-net.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Mateusz Loskot
>> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 10:27 AM
>> To: Discussion of Boost Documentation
>> Cc: Dave Abrahams
>> Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Sphinx integration
>
>> >> - there's no usable Emacs editing mode for quickbook; there is for ReST.
>
> I'm sure someone could knock one up in no time - I've done this for
> TextPad, for example, by using
> an existing 'syntax' file and tweaking it.

Well, I tried a while back, and it ended up having some pathological
efficiency problems.  Scanning for matching delimiters is not always
simple.

http://lists.boost.org/boost-docs/att-3018/qbk-mode.el

> Having syntax coloring is *really* helpful.

Yes.

> If you are writing Quickbook without it, you have one hand tied behind your back!

Yes.  Please, fix it if you think you can!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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