Prints out a summary of the options supported by quickbook, and exits.

Prints out the version of the quickbook executable, and exists.

Disable XML pretty printing. Normally quickbook runs its output through a post processor which generates consistent XML indentation, this flag disables it.

Strict mode. Adds extra errors for possible issues, including sections that weren't closed, and square brackets that don't match any tags or templates.

By default quickbook generates docbook headers that link to themselves, so that in a web browser you can get a link to the header by right clicking on the header and copying the link. This requires generating slightly odd boostbook markup, so this head disables the feature and generates plain headers.

Indentation to use in the pretty printer.

Line width to use in the pretty printer.

Used to explicitly specify that the argument is an input file. Normally not used, as you can just write:

quickbook filename.qbk

. But if you wish to you can also write:

quickbook --input-file filename.qbk

. This could be useful if a file path could be confused with an option, for example to use a file called --filename.qbk:

quickbook --input-file --filename.qbk

Only one input file can be specified.

Explicitly specifiy the path of the file to be generated. By default, it's just the input file name with the extension replaced by .xml.

Don't write out a boostbook file. This is useful for checking that a document doesn't have any sytax errors, or for running with --output-deps. If --output-file-path is also defined, that overwrites this.

Writes the full path of all the files read in by quickbook to the given path. This is useful for build tools so that they can tell when to rebuild the documentation.

Use Microsoft Visual Studio style error and warn message format, so that Visual Studio IDE will understand them.

Add the given path to the include path, can be specified multiple times.

Define a quickbook macro. This can have a value:

quickbook -D __foo__=bar

Or you can just define an empty macro:

quickbook -D __foo__

This can be useful for conditional generation.

Path the image elements are relative to. This is only used for reading in SVG details.