<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Chapter 42. Quickbook 1.6</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Boost C++ Libraries BoostBook Documentation Subset"> <link rel="up" href="tools.html" title="Part II. Boost Tools"> <link rel="prev" href="boostbook/dtd/rationale.html" title="BoostBook element rationale"> <link rel="next" href="quickbook/change_log.html" title="Change Log"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="boostbook/dtd/rationale.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="tools.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="quickbook/change_log.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="chapter"> <div class="titlepage"><div> <div><h2 class="title"> <a name="quickbook"></a>Chapter 42. Quickbook 1.6</h2></div> <div><div class="authorgroup"> <div class="author"><h3 class="author"> <span class="firstname">Joel</span> <span class="surname">de Guzman</span> </h3></div> <div class="author"><h3 class="author"> <span class="firstname">Eric</span> <span class="surname">Niebler</span> </h3></div> </div></div> <div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2002, 2004, 2006 Joel de Guzman, Eric Niebler</p></div> <div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2010, 2011 Daniel James</p></div> <div><div class="legalnotice"> <a name="quickbook.legal"></a><p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) </p> </div></div> </div></div> <div class="toc"> <p><b>Table of Contents</b></p> <dl class="toc"> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook.html#quickbook.intro">Introduction</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/change_log.html">Change Log</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax.html">Syntax Summary</a></span></dt> <dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax.html#quickbook.syntax.comments">Comments</a></span></dt></dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/structure.html">Document Structure</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/structure.html#quickbook.syntax.structure.docinfo">Document Info</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/structure.html#quickbook.syntax.structure.section">Sections</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html">Phrase Level Elements</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.font_styles">Font Styles</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.replaceable">Replaceable</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.quotations">Quotations</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.simple_formatting">Simple formatting</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.role">Role</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.inline_code">Inline code</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.code_blocks">Code blocks</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.source_mode">Source Mode</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.line_break">line-break</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.anchors">Anchors</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.links">Links</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.anchor_links">Anchor links</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.refentry_links">refentry links</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.code_links">Code Links</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.escape">Escape</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.single_char_escape">Single char escape</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.unicode_escape">Unicode escape</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.images">Images</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.footnotes">Footnotes</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.macro_expansion">Macro Expansion</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.template_expansion">Template Expansion</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.cond">Conditional Generation</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html">Block Level Elements</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.xinclude">xinclude</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.paragraphs">Paragraphs</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.lists">Lists</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.code">Code</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.escape_back">Escaping Back To QuickBook</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.preformatted">Preformatted</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.blockquote">Blockquote</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.admonitions">Admonitions</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.headings">Headings</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.generic_heading">Generic Heading</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.macros">Macros</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.predefined_macros">Predefined Macros</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.templates">Templates</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.blurbs">Blurbs</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.tables">Tables</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.variable_lists">Variable Lists</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.include">Include</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.import">Import</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.block">Plain blocks</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html">Language Versions</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html#quickbook.versions.stable">Stable Versions</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html#language_versions.1_6">Quickbook 1.6</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html#language_versions.1_7">Quickbook 1.7</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/install.html">Installation and configuration</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/install.html#quickbook.install.macosx">Mac OS X</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/install.html#quickbook.install.windows">Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/install.html#quickbook.install.linux">Debian, Ubuntu</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/editors.html">Editor Support</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/editors.html#quickbook.editors.scite">Scintilla Text Editor</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/editors.html#editor_support.kde_support">KDE Support</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/ref.html">Quick Reference</a></span></dt> </dl> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> <a name="quickbook.intro"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div></div> <div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"> <p> <span class="bold"><strong><span class="emphasis"><em><span class="quote">“<span class="quote">Why program by hand in five days what you can spend five years of your life automating?</span>”</span></em></span></strong></span> </p> <p> -- Terrence Parr, author ANTLR/PCCTS </p> </blockquote></div> <p> Well, QuickBook started as a weekend hack. It was originally intended to be a sample application using <a href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net" target="_top">Spirit</a>. What is it? What you are viewing now, this documentation, is autogenerated by QuickBook. These files were generated from one master: </p> <div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p> <a href="../../tools/quickbook/doc/quickbook.qbk" target="_top">quickbook.qbk</a> </p></blockquote></div> <p> Originally named QuickDoc, this funky tool that never dies, evolved into a funkier tool thanks to Eric Niebler who resurrected the project making it generate <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html" target="_top">BoostBook</a> instead of HTML. The <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html" target="_top">BoostBook</a> documentation format is an extension of <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a>, an SGML or XML based format for describing documentation. </p> <div class="tip"><table border="0" summary="Tip"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Tip]" src="../../doc/src/images/tip.png"></td> <th align="left">Tip</th> </tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You don't need to know anything about <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html" target="_top">BoostBook</a> or <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a> to use QuickBook. A basic understanding of <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a> might help, but shouldn't be necessary. For really advanced stuff you will need to know <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a>, but you can ignore it at first, and maybe continue to do so. </p></td></tr> </table></div> <p> QuickBook is a WikiWiki style documentation tool geared towards C++ documentation using simple rules and markup for simple formatting tasks. QuickBook extends the WikiWiki concept. Like the WikiWiki, QuickBook documents are simple text files. A single QuickBook document can generate a fully linked set of nice HTML and PostScript/PDF documents complete with images and syntax- colorized source code. </p> <p> Features include: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "> <li class="listitem"> generate <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html" target="_top">BoostBook</a> xml, to generate HTML, PostScript and PDF </li> <li class="listitem"> simple markup to link to Doxygen-generated entities </li> <li class="listitem"> macro system for simple text substitution </li> <li class="listitem"> simple markup for italics, bold, preformatted, blurbs, code samples, tables, URLs, anchors, images, etc. </li> <li class="listitem"> automatic syntax coloring of code samples </li> <li class="listitem"> CSS support </li> </ul></div> </div> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer"></div></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="boostbook/dtd/rationale.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="tools.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="quickbook/change_log.html"><img src="../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> </body> </html>