Paul A Bristow wrote:
>  
> 
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> |  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> |  Of Rene Rivera
> |  Sent: 22 November 2006 05:05
> |  To: Boost documentation format, structure, and processing discussion
> |  Subject: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Indented section, almost.
> |  
> |  In a whimsical attempt to impart some visual structure to a 
> |  quickbook 
> |  file full of sections (a top level document file) I tried indenting 
> |  sections based on scope. For example:
> |  
> |  [section One]
> |       [section Sub One]
> |       [include:subone subone.qbk]
> |       [endsect]
> |  [endsect]
> |  
> |  I was hoping for the whitespace to be ignored since there 
> |  was no other 
> |  text. Instead I got a mixture of what I wanted and what I 
> |  was fearing 
> |  :-) It did include the subone.qbk and put in the sub 
> |  sections. But it 
> |  also put three versions of the indented [*] parts as 
> |  preformatted text 
> |  in the result.
> 
> I similarly strode in where angels fear to tread.
> 
> I found the most helpful way to reduce the (considerable for me - coming to a 
> long and complicated docs already wirtten by John)
> confusion of nested blocks was to add
> a comment made by pasting the section line after the endsect and adding a / 
> to make it a comment. 
> 
> [section One]
> [section Sub One]
> [include:subone subone.qbk]
> [endsect][/section Sub One]
> [endsect][/section One]
> 
> Of course when I forgot the / it didn't have the desired effect ;-) 

Will it help if we allow:

[section One]
[    section Sub One]

...some stuff here...

[    endsect Sub One]
[endsect One]


* make white space after the markup tag legal
* allow optional titles for endsect which, when present,
   enforces validity of sect/endsect

??

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net


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