>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
>Joel de Guzman
>Sent: 11 December 2006 23:35
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] questions on pdf documentation 
>usingquickbookandboostbook
>
>Paul A Bristow wrote:
>>  
>> I would just observe that although the end result of John's struggles
>> (using a commercial product) lacks nice features like colored code,
>> the pdf still has advantages over the html when it comes to 
>navigating.
>> 
>> Since the documentation for John's Math Functions are now 
>over 200 pages (phew!)
>> I have difficulties finding things even if I wrote a bit of it.
>> 
>> Using a pdf reader one can search the whole document for 
>words etc - which is a bit of a substitute for a proper index.  Making
>> indexes manually is obviously obselete - and I'm bored just 
>writing docs, never mind the index ;-)
>> 
>> Google does also already help - but I am now clear how to 
>limit the search to just one document in Boost?  Can we use the Google
>> desktop indexing to provide this somehow?
>
>There was some talk (and some work in fact) of a QuickBook auto-
>index generator. I'll try to dig it up and see if somehow it can
>be incorporated.

I wonder if Googles custom search engine

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/examples/GooglePicks

could be helpful?

(Sadly it doesn't seem to work with the cheapo web site www.hetp.u-net.com that 
I have ;-)

But it does for Boost.org.

Paul

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