Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Not sure if that's what we all want ;-) I should come clean and mention 
> what I currently want... I have a use I want to put quickbook to. I 
> need/want to use the quickbook syntax within a wiki context. This comes 
> from evaluating the variety of wiki formats and realizing that they just 
> plain suck. The structuring features of quickbook alone blow away any 
> current wiki format. So ultimately I want a quickbook library I can plug 
> into a web server, either directly or through PHP, to translate from 
> user edited quickbook content to XHTML fragments, as fast as possible.

Like the Trac wiki currently does with ReStructuredText (using Python,
of course ;-)

I've been hoping we'll make a Trac plugin for QuickBook, too.

> But to put it closer to "home". It would really cool if the
> officially supported Boost wiki used quicbook content. Also it would
> be nice to be able to dynamically present Boost documentation on the
> website without having to go through the slow docbook translation
> and check in into CVS.

Yep.

>>> In fairness, my suggestion does impose the requirement to have Python
>>> installed, even on developers who aren't interested in Python, but
>>> doesn't everybody have Python already? ;-)
>> 
>> Most people who use Boost, but not everyone.
>
> And more likely the decision of what tools to use are not up to the 
> developer.

What developer?  I mean, who are we trying to reach with QuickBook?
Is it so crucial to be able to serve that small minority of developers
who are allowed to use C++ but not Python?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com



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