Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#2730 new Feature Requests
Boostbook might place many authors on one line?
| Reported by: | Paul A. Bristow | Owned by: | No-Maintainer |
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| Milestone: | To Be Determined | Component: | Documentation |
| Version: | Boost 1.37.0 | Severity: | Cosmetic |
| Keywords: | boostbook authors | Cc: |
Description
I note that many Boost libraries have many authors.
For example the math library, where the seven authors (so far) are listed separately, half of page one is a list of authors, rather widely spaced.
The Boost.Traits library ducks the issue by saying 'various authors', but listing them all in the copyright. This doesn't seem ideal.
(If we output bibliographic info in future, we also want to be sure that all authors are specified, so putting "various authors" will output "various authors" as the authors!)
So could the authors be better placed on one line?
(I also note that the "Distributed under the Boost Software License, ..." is in a larger font that I think it need to be?)
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
| Component: | quickbook → Documentation |
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| Keywords: | boostbook added; quickbook removed |
| Owner: | changed from to |
| Summary: | Quickbook might place many authors on one line? → Boostbook might place many authors on one line? |
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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Quickbook generates correct boostbook markup for the authors, changing the formatting is a boostbook issue. The HTML for the authors is currently generated by docbook, but it might be possible to use a hook to generate it ourselves. We could possibly change it in CSS, although I don't think that would be an particularly good solution.
I've changed the component to 'Documentation' as this isn't really a quickbook issue, and we don't have a boostbook component.