Douglas Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello,
>   I found some time over the break to work on the XSL stylesheets. Some new 
> features:
>
>   * Much improved name lookup support. <classname>, <methodname>,
> and <functionname> all work now, and take their scoping cues from
> <namespace>, <class>, <using-namespace> and <using-class>

Sorry to be slow, but could someone explain what we mean by "name
lookup" in this context?

>   * Support for class template specializations (see the "last_value"
> template in the Signals library)

Nice.

>   * Support for functions as reference entries 
>   * Support for overloaded functions & methods documented together
>   * Default template parameters and the types in typedefs can now be 
> represented as XML subtrees instead of strings (so we can have links in them)
>   * Libraries can be placed into categories, and the XSL generates both an 
> alphabetical list of all libraries and a categorized list (like the Boost 
> documentation has now, but automatic)

That's seriously nice. The main complaint I have with writing Boost
docs by hand is the cost of creating indexes.

>   * Subnamespaces work
>   * Lots of formatting tweaks
>  
> I've also converted the Ref documentation and the reference documentation for 
> Signals. To see the new features, check out the HTML version here:
>       http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/Boost

Adding some .pngs for the nav buttons would help the user experience A
LOT.

> I'll stick a PDF version at:
>       http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost.pdf

Damn, Doug! I can see the published Boost Reference Manual coming out
of this...

-Dave

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                       David Abrahams
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