Re: Quick script for quickbook builds?

On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Eric Niebler wrote:

> Daryle Walker wrote:
>> Is there a quick script out there I can stick in my XCode (2.5,  
>> still on Mac OS X 10.4) project file, under a run-script phase,  
>> that can convert a *.qbk file to an HTML file?  In other words, I  
>> want to "compile" any QuickBook files so I can check my progress  
>> without a big trip to the command line and messing around with bjam.
>
> None that I'm aware of, but if you make such a thing I'm sure  
> others would find it useful.

The point was for someone else to do it for me, but....

I read up on how files with a specific extension that don't have a  
default compiler assigned to them can get one, and how said custom  
compiler can be a user-developed script program.  So I added the  
QuickBook sources to my project (and the ones for Boost.FileSystem,  
System, and ProgramOptions) to make the tool.  Then I added a rule  
for *.qbk files to run a single-line script to create a corresponding  
*.qbk.xml file.

I added another rule to convert that file (trivially) to a *.txt  
file.  But what really want to do is convert that *.qbk.xml file,  
which is in BoostBook format, into a *.html (or *.pdf) file.  There's  
a Boost.Build/Jam procedure for doing this, but how do I do it  
manually?  In other words, does someone know what the command line  
instructions that the Jamfiles are converted to?  I think there's a  
verbose mode for bJam, but I don't think that will help since I've  
never been able to get the documentation building stuff working.