Now that I've started to use Quickbook for a major project, I am
liking it more and more.  Of course, with that comes visions of
an even greater tool.  :)

I've already run into a number of situations where I'd like to have
some missing functionality.  Here are a few items:

- Chapters, _a_la_ LaTeX

- Subsections, _a_la_ LaTeX

- Inclusion of .qbk files

- A way to specify HTML page breaks (i.e. put everything after this on
  a new page).  These may or may not specify page breaks for other
  outputs.  Perhaps multiple break types would be useful.

- Superscript/subscript support

- Footnote/bibliography/reference support (can fake it, but it's
  awkward)

- A way to reference code snippits directly from source files.  This
  seems complicated but would be really useful to keep
  documentation/code examples up-to-date with actual implmentations.
  Perhaps some special marker comment in the code could be referenced
  to import into a .qbk.  Kind of like a literate programming system
  but without the awful code mangling it implies.  I've read about
  systems like this called "Elucidative Programming:"

  http://www.cs.auc.dk/~odin/thesis/

If these features exist and I missed them in the documentation, let me
know.

I don't know how much of this is doable given the abilities of BoostBook
but I wanted to give some feedback to make a great tool even better.

                               -Dave


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