> > 1) I was going to try running the pdf, but the Makefile includes a Makefile.def 
> > ...
> ...nice explanation snipped...
> At this point, it might be worth just verifying the output with HTML,
> checking it into the sandbox, and watching what the PDF looks like on the
> web site :)

Ok, thanks for the explanation.  I'll take your advice and leave
the PDF alone for the time being. 
 
> > 4) It appears that you use the <code> element within paragraphs
> > to format text as opposed to <programlisting>.  Not clear on the
> > difference...
> 
> Like <pre> in HTML, <programlisting> contains a block of preformatted text
> (presumably for a program of some sort). <code>, on the other hand, just
> changes the font to a monospaced font but does not consider its text to be
> preformatted (e.g., line breaks in <code> are not significant; line breaks
> in <programlisting> are significant). To be picky, <code> in HTML is
> actually spelled <computeroutput> in DocBook, but BoostBook supports
> <code> also because <computeroutput> is _waaaay_ too much to type.

<response_tag>Got it :-)</response_tag>
 
> > 5) I'm a little unsure about how the example extraction stuff works,
> > but I'm sure you will explain the magic once you get around to
> > documenting that part :-)
> 
> Short version: anything in a <source> element is written to the file named
> by the testcase. <snippet> pulls in code from a <programlisting> with the
> same name attribute.

Thx.

> > 6) One worry is that I'm sure some users will be a bit overwhelmed
> > when writing reference docs with all the various tags.
> > I'm wondering if there will be a minimum subset that is less
> > feature rich with links, but still works fine that can be more
> > easily transitioned to?
> 
> There might be. Actually, it may make sense to move the discussion of
> linking much later, after the discussion of documenting C++ constructs.
> That would limit the amount of nitpicky details in the initial sections,
> and it would be easier to understand the behavior of, e.g., <functionname>
> or <methodname> once we have the C++ constructs around.

Ok, sounds good.

Jeff


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