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<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs</link>
<description>A community that cares and constantly improve boost documentation and tools</description>
<lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2007 09:16:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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<title>Standard C++ Boosted docs project starts</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/2otqbu</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-19 14:45</guid>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2007 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Andrew has start organizing what may be one of the most promising
project of IBD.
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<title>SVG icons set project progress</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SvgIconsSetProject</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-18 16:15</guid>
<pubDate>18 Jul 2007 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Peter has been working a lot to came up with a good set of
icons for our docs. Keep up the great work Peter!
</description>
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<title>Proofreading of the IBD Wiki is almost complete</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/3234qk</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-17 06:05</guid>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2007 06:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Kudos to Jake and Paul!
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<title>Kai joins IBD</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/3d6mwe</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-17 05:25</guid>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2007 05:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
He will be working at the "Trac Syntax Coloring Project".
Thanks you so much for jumping in!
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<title>IBD welcomes Kai Brüning</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/2to8bg</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-16 10:08</guid>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2007 10:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
It will be great to count with his help. Lets work to make him feel comfortable in the Boost community.
</description>
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<title>Translation project moved to Helping Boost Authors</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/HelpingBoostAuthors</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-15 12:34</guid>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
The translation project is now part of the new section "Helping Boost Authors". We hope this section will become the main communication channel between Boost Authors and IBD developers.
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<title>Helping Boost Authors</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/HelpingBoostAuthors</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-14 10:00</guid>
<pubDate>14 Jul 2007 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
We have a new resource at IBD: a section in the project Wiki called "Helping Boost Authors".

This section is a bazaar of friendly hands. We are teachers, experience users, native English speakers and artists. We want to offer our help to Boost authors to improve their documentation.
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<title>Best Documentation Practices</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/DocumentationBestPractices</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-13 15:23</guid>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2007 15:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
The first guideline was added to the section "Best Documentation Practices".
There are currently more documents to add here, we will try to fill this section with useful information for Boost Authors.
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<title>Proofreading of IBD Wiki starts</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/3786jf</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-12 11:39</guid>
<pubDate>12 Jul 2007 11:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Jake and Paul first project will be proofread the IBD Wiki pages.
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<title>Glyn joins the community Blog</title>
<link>http://improving-boost-docs.blogspot.com</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-11 13:50</guid>
<pubDate>11 Jul 2007 13:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
We are eagerly waiting to read you.
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<title>Jake joins the community Blog</title>
<link>http://improving-boost-docs.blogspot.com/2007/07/bouncing-ideas.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-10 17:48</guid>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2007 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
He writes:
I feel that it would be helpful if there was a little bit of standardization in the layout/content of the documentation. A lot of the documentation implements similar ideas (one minute tutorials, introductions, reference sections), but each individual libraries documentation has the earmarks of the authors.
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<title>Resources Section added to the Community Blog</title>
<link>http://improving-boost-docs.blogspot.com</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-07 18:12</guid>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2007 18:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
"The Blog is a one-stop shop" -- Stjepan
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<title>Two proof-readers join the project</title>
<link>http://www.nabble.com/-boost-docs--Proofreader-needed--t4045020.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-08 13:26</guid>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2007 13:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Thanks Paul Giaccone and Jake Voytko for jumping in.
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<title>Boost community feedback on our objectives</title>
<link>http://www.nabble.com/-IBD--Request-for-Comment%2C-Objectives-t4044685.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-08 11:35</guid>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2007 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Since we want to build a long term subcommunity which main purpose is
to continuously improve the quality of Boost documentation, we would
like that our main directives be aligned with the Boost community as a
whole.
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<title>Resources Section added to the Wiki</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs#Resources</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-07 13:15</guid>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2007 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
At IBD we use several open source tools to organize our efforts. In this section the purpose of each resource is explained. When possible, IBD resources will be interlinked and share a common look and feel allowing a consistent experience for both users and developers.
</description>
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<title>Help request, A woman's point of view</title>
<link>http://www.nabble.com/-IBD--Help-request%2C-A-Woman%27s-Point-of-View-t4035148.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-06 16:56</guid>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2007 16:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Is there any female Booster willing to help us?
</description>
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<title>Stjepan joins the community Blog</title>
<link>http://improving-boost-docs.blogspot.com/2007/07/smartptr-translation-progress.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-06 14:39</guid>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2007 14:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
He add a post about his experience transalting smart_ptr docs.
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<title>Help request, Python programmers</title>
<link>http://www.nabble.com/-IBD--Help-request%2C-Python-programmers-t4035102.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-06 11:25</guid>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2007 11:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
There are two specific projects that need Python programmers:

1) http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSpecificWikiMacros

2) http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/QuickbookWikiProcessor
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<title>Two testers join the project</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BrowserTestingChart#ActiveTesters</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-06 08:10</guid>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2007 08:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Stuart help request was answered by Chun Ping Wang and Marco.
Welcome to IBD!
</description>
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<title>IBD RSS news feed</title>
<link>http://beta.boost.org/development/ibd_news.rss</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-05 21:45</guid>
<pubDate>05 Jul 2007 21:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
The IBD news feed consists of formal announces about the things going on in the project, they are very short and direct headlines.
Some of the common subjects are new members, new subprojects, help requests and completed translation.
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<title>New Community Blog</title>
<link>http://improving-boost-docs.blogspot.com</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-05 14:23</guid>
<pubDate>05 Jul 2007 14:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
A record of the things that happens behind the scenes, our next objectives and the social and philosophical aspects of IBD.
</description>
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<title>Translation of Boost.Boostbook completed</title>
<link>http://beta.boost.org/development/tools/boostbook/doc/html/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-04 18:37</guid>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2007 18:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
We have translated boostbook docs to quickbook and add a sections about boosbook specific HTML params.
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<title>Our team mascot</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs#team_mascot</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-04 14:37</guid>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2007 14:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Give a warm welcome to Mafalda, our team mascot.
She is a English Springer Spaniel from Argentina, currently living with Matias. Mafalda is helping him with the project Wiki page. She just barks once in a while, but that is a lot.
</description>
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<title>Stuart Dootsoon's help request for the Browser testing project</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/2q6csw</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-04 12:37</guid>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2007 12:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
We need more testers to cover all the possible browsers and platforms combinations.
</description>
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<title>A new community builder tool for the project: Linked In</title>
<link>http://www.linkedin.com/</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-03 19:27</guid>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2007 19:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Be part of our network of trust. We will use Linked In to track our connections in the project.
</description>
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<title>Change date format to be ISO 8601 compliant</title>
<link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-03 13:27</guid>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2007 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
We now will use the standard compliant format:
2007-07-01 13:27
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<title>ohloh statistics for our project</title>
<link>http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6385</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-03 04:27</guid>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2007 04:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Check our statistics, ohloh is an impressive tool.
</description>
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<title>New project: Boost Debugger Visualizers</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/DebuggerVisualizers</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-02 04:53</guid>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2007 04:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Welcome Filip!
He will be spear-heading our efforts to build a complete set of data visualizers for Boost libraries.
</description>
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<title>Formal presentation of the project</title>
<link>http://www.nabble.com/-ANN--Improving-Boost-Docs-Project-presentation-t4011591.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-02 02:05</guid>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2007 02:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
32 downloads on the first 12 hours!
Thanks to everyone involved.
</description>
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<title>Initial structure of the Boost Glue docs project</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/GlueDocsProject</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-01 16:14</guid>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2007 16:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Glue docs sees boost as one tied entity, providing real-world examples, best practices for common tasks and tutorials about how to combine Boost libraries together to build high-quality C++ applications.
</description>
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<title>First Release of Boost Docs</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs#Downloads</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-07-01 02:23</guid>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2007 02:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Boost Docs 2007-07-01 has been released.

Release Notes:
* Initial version of Boost.DocTest
* Initial version of Boost Style
    -- Modular CSS design.
    -- CSS based admonitions and navigation graphics.
    -- Quickbook source stylesheet.
* Boostbook improvements
    -- Almost Valid XHTML 1.1 output.
    -- New header and footer based on beta.boost.org.
    -- GroupedLinks select boxes for Boost Libraries and Section quick jumping.
    -- Google Search box over our docs.
    -- Box-wrapper based blurbs that allow us to include rounded corners, drop shadows, etc.
    -- Alternatives syntax highlighting including most common IDEs.
    -- Chapter logo support.
    -- Parameters clean up.
    -- A new PDF stylesheet based on the unified look and feel project.
* Quickbook improvements
    -- Initial support for SVG images in HTML docs.
</description>
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<title>We will use ohloh as a community builder tool</title>
<link>http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-30 21:15</guid>
<pubDate>30 Jun 2007 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
ohloh provides statistics about open source projects.
It is a very impressive project that is currently growing in features and reputation.
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<title>Two new objectives</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs#Objectives</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-30 12:16</guid>
<pubDate>30 Jun 2007 12:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Standard C++ Library Boosted Docs and Documentation Best Practices.
</description>
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<title>New tester manager</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs#Objectives</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-29 23:26</guid>
<pubDate>29 Jun 2007 23:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Stuart Dootson will be our browser testing manager. Thanks!
We will ping him when a re-test is needed and he tell other testers to update the browser chart.
</description>
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<title>Fancy graphics for the wiki</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-29 18:26</guid>
<pubDate>29 Jun 2007 18:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
From the objectives:

* Include nice looking logos and diagrams. Although Boost libraries are so great that they do not need any marketting at all, lets face it: people are attracted like flies to catchy names and fancy pictures.

* Write docs, include rationales, use our own tools. If we want to improve boost docs, we should start by showcasing best practices in this project.
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<title>Formal objectives of the project</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs#Objectives</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-28 17:26</guid>
<pubDate>28 Jun 2007 17:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
The formal objectives of the project have been outlined.
</description>
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<title>Building a long term community</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs#People</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-28 12:44</guid>
<pubDate>28 Jun 2007 12:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
We are trying to build a long term community of people that cares and constantly improve Boost docs. With that in mind new sections have been created: Subprojects, People, and Acknowledgments; including pictures of us to make us feel as a group.
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<title>The SVG icons set project</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SvgIconsSetProject</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-28 12:44</guid>
<pubDate>28 Jun 2007 12:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
The community is growing: Peter Foley starts the SVG icons set project. Welcome Peter!
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<title>Boost specific WikiMacros</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/WikiMacros</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-27 15:26</guid>
<pubDate>27 Jun 2007 15:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Help needed for a new project: Boost specific WikiMacros.
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<title>Quickbook as a WikiProcessor for our Trac</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/QuickbookWikiProcessor</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-27 07:54</guid>
<pubDate>27 Jun 2007 07:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
It will be excellent if I could write the Wiki pages directly in Quickbook syntax.
This would allow us to have an uniform syntax in our Wiki and docs sources, allowing to copy and paste, share stylesheets, etc.
Let us know we can count on you!
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<title>Trac Syntax Coloring</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostTracSyntaxColoring</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-26 09:21</guid>
<pubDate>26 Jun 2007 09:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
New project waiting for a developer: "Trac Syntax Coloring for Boostbook, Quickbook and Jamfiles"
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<title>Initial Boost Docs organization proposal</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/DocsOrganization</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-26 05:34</guid>
<pubDate>26 Jun 2007 05:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
It formalize the way we will arrange translated docs.
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<title>Boost docs repository</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostDocsRepository</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-25 14:22</guid>
<pubDate>25 Jun 2007 14:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
We have now a repository to organize our work.
More information in the boost docs repository section at the project Wiki.
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<title>Wiki navigation TOC</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-25 11:12</guid>
<pubDate>25 Jun 2007 11:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
The Wiki is now easy to navigate!
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<title>Logo playground Wiki</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/LibrariesLogos</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-22 23:24</guid>
<pubDate>22 Jun 2007 23:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
New Wiki page! Go and see the logo playground page.
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<title>The browser testing chart</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BrowserTestingChart</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-22 18:24</guid>
<pubDate>22 Jun 2007 18:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
The new docs are being tested by volunteers in different platforms and browsers. Go to the browser testing chart.
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<title>Subprojects</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocsSubprojects</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-22 13:05</guid>
<pubDate>22 Jun 2007 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Some subprojects have been outlined so people willing to collaborate can jump in and became a part of the project.
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<title>A new translation tool has been released</title>
<link>http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/QuickbookSourceStylesheetProject</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-22 07:18</guid>
<pubDate>22 Jun 2007 07:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Using modern CSS capabilities we can change in a great degree the way HTML pages will be rendered. A stylesheet can be developed that takes the HTML generated by Boostbook and shows it as Quickbook source.
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<title>Syntax highlighting, Revolution!</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/2an9yt</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-21 08:23</guid>
<pubDate>21 Jun 2007 08:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
The new HTML style allows you to choose from different coloring schemes.
</description>
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<title>Docs translation project</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/38gvd3</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-19 20:01</guid>
<pubDate>19 Jun 2007 20:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Four really cool guys volunteers to translate docs to quickbook
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<title>A few steps from XHTML 1.1 validation</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/2mpocl</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-18 13:01</guid>
<pubDate>18 Jun 2007 13:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
We are working hard to make Boostbook produce validated XHTML.
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<title>Box wrappers support in Boostbook</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/2mpocl</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-15 12:45</guid>
<pubDate>15 Jun 2007 12:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
A box wrapper allows you to place small images to the borders of blocks in order to achieve things like rounded blurbs and drop shadows.
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<title>Grouped Links select boxes</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/27lw57</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-12 12:45</guid>
<pubDate>12 Jun 2007 12:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
New Grouped Links select boxes in header for jumping between Boost C++ libraries and internal sections.
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<title>Google search box</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/yqkpek</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-11 04:22</guid>
<pubDate>11 Jun 2007 04:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
Linked CSE Google search box in header.
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<title>Test document for new styles</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/25e3sm</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-09 10:25</guid>
<pubDate>09 Jun 2007 10:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
A document that exercise all the constructs from Quickbook and Boostbook that will be used for testing purpose.
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<title>Improving Boost Docs</title>
<link>http://tinyurl.com/25e3sm</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">IBD news 2007-06-06 20:30</guid>
<pubDate>06 Jun 2007 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
A new project is starting with the objective of improve boost documentation and tools.
We have already translated Boost.NumericConversion, Boost.Optional and Boost.Config from HTML to Quickbook.
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