On 6/1/07, Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matias, I'm posting this to the Boost.Docs list...
>
> Matias Capeletto wrote:
>
> >> > Why do you deprecated \n in Quickbook?? I really need it. Is there an
> >> > option to undeprecated one of them [br] or \n. I need this to separate
> >> > one function ref from the other in my docs. They are render too close
> >> > for my taste and I do not want to edit the css because this is the
> >> > only place where I need this.
> >>
> >> IIRC, the problem is that there's no legal way to
> >> generate that in DocBook. A strict DocBook processor
> >> flags it as an error. See the thread in Boost.Docs
> >> titled "Quickbook, <sbr> and latex/pdf generation."
> >
> > :(
> > very :(
> > What is the best way to put some space then? I have used the hack of
> > printing a small white image there (hidden behind a __SPACE__ macro) but
> > it is very ugly.
>
> Hmmm... how does:
>
>      <para> </para>

I do not know about this one.

> look like? How about:
>
>      <programlisting>
>
>      </programlisting>

But this will generate a box. I just want some space.

> If either of these work, then maybe we can probably keep the /n. Unless
> someone else objects. In general, the idea behind DocBook is to
> separate the formatting from the content, we're violating this with
> this workaround. I'm not a purist, though ;-), but I'd have to say
> that these are all ugly.

Bimap Docs are now free of \n.
I recently translate Boost.Optional docs to qbk and in the reference,
fernando puts a small example for each function. If I do not used
__SPACE__ trick there the result is unreadable.
It is a good thing to banned the \n where possible but iI have find
places where I really need them.

Regards
Matias

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