Re: The beauty of LATEX

On 10/18/2011 11:12 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 3:31 PM, Daniel James wrote:

>> It's certainly doable, the spirit 2 fork of quickbook had a half
>> written html generator (it didn't do chunking and missed a few
>> features).
> 
> Not only is it doable.. But I did it for the Spirit1 version "long" ago. And the code is
> still around.. here..
> <https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/branches/quickbook/backend/boost/tools/quickbook>. What
> stopped me those 4 years ago was waiting for a design/choices on some other basic features
> to really make it usable. Like dealing with include paths, where to install the templates,

I think the templates should be pre-included using the command line.
E.g. --include dbstd.qbk (for standard docbook).

> how to select the backend, etc. I was particularly looking forward to the Spirit2
> "rewrite" to hopefully revive that code to make it easier to implement.

Ditto for the backend. E.g. --target docbook.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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