wiki:BoostSpecificWikiMacros

Improving Boost Docs Project

Boost Trac Wiki macros

Introduction

Trac Wiki allows the use of macros to help with common needs like a table of contents (TOC) or the insertion of an image. They work similarly to Quickbook templates. There are only a bunch of them in the official Trac release, and it will be very helpful to have a set of Boost-specific macros that make it easy to do common things like referring to a particular section of boost docs. Something like: 

   [[BoostDocSection(regex,introduction)]]

Objectives

  • Write a not-too-cluttered proposal for new Boost-specific WikiMacros, including the rationale behind each decision.

Initial Ideas

Link to Boost libraries documentation

[[BoostDocLink(regex,introduction)]]

TOC-generator

A macro that generates something similar to the naviagtion TOCs used by this wiki page.

It will be great if we could reuse the XML format that we are pushing for the sections in the new HTML style. See ​online XML for the sections of the DocTest document.

Some nice features:

  • Orthogonal page organization system to the general Wiki mess. That is, we define an extern xml nested links file with the organization we want.
  • Use bold ( or something else ) to show you where you are.
  • Hide all internal sections trees except from the one you are looking at.

People info

[[PeopleInfo(Joel de Guzman)]]

This will render: 

[[Br]][[Image(People:joel_de_guzman.png,nolink)]]
[[Br]]'''Joel de Guzman'''
[[Br]][http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3/contributors/92 Ohloh statistics]
[[Br]][http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/89/716 Linked In profile]
[[Br]]''joel at somewhere dot com''

This will look like this in the wiki page:


Joel de Guzman
Joel de Guzman
​Ohloh statistics
​Linked In profile
joel at somewhere dot com

We can see the person in an external XML file in the format: 

<booster id="joel_de_guzman" >

    <name>Joel de Guzman</name>
    <linkedIn>http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/89/716</name>
    <ohloh>http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3/contributors/92</ohloh>
    <mail>joel at somewhere dot com</mail>
    <picture>url</picture>

    <!-- More useful info -->

    <tracId>jdguzman</tracId>

    <sourceforgeId>jdg</sourceforgeId>

    <years>5</years>

    <maintainerOf>
        <library>Spirit</library>
        <library>Fusion</library>
    </maintainerOf>

    <authorOf>
        <library>Spirit</library>
        <library>Fusion</library>
    </authorOf>

    <!-- etc... -->

</booster>

Active developers


Chris Fairles
Chris Fairles
chris dot fairles at gmail dot com

Knowledgeable people whom you can contact for help



Dave Abrahams
​Ohloh statistics
​Linked In profile
dave at boost-consulting dot com

Last modified 15 years ago Last modified on Jul 30, 2007, 12:41:13 PM
Note: See TracWiki for help on using the wiki.