[Scilab-users] help page

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 26/04/2019 à 22:03, Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
>
> Le 26/04/2019 à 21:23, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Le 26/04/2019 à 19:40, Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
>>> Le 26/04/2019 à 19:10, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Hello Stéphane,
>>>>
>>>> Not sure this does what you expect, but I think pandoc can do the 
>>>> trick:
>>>> foo.xml copied from : 
>>>> https://antispam.utc.fr/proxy/2/c3RlcGhhbmUubW90dGVsZXRAdXRjLmZy/help.scilab.org/docs/5.5.2/en_US/man.html
>>>>
>>>> pandoc -f docbook -t latex foo.xml -o foo.pdf
>>>
>>> OK, but you need the Scilab stylesheets in order to have the correct 
>>> output. I suppose the above assumes a basic rendering. My question 
>>> was rather about doing this within Scilab. The example of the help 
>>> page does not work on my machine for html and pdf output.
>>
>> To do this, i have created a template toolbox restricted to 
>> ./etc/page.start (void), ./help/la_LA series of languages subdirs, 
>> and ./jar empty.
>> I make a copy of the template. Then, i put in ./help/en_US the main 
>> xml file (etc for other languages),
>> I set the current directory to the root dir of the template, and run
>> --> tbx_make . help  // (*)
>> Then i display the HTML page in Chrome, preview the printing in PDF, 
>> tune its layout, and that's OK.
>>
>> Why on your side does it fail to generate the html? Any error message 
>> in the terminal?
>
> When I run the example of xmltopdf help page, all generated pdf files 
> are empty.
>

Yes, the PDF generator is KO. This is reported for years now.
But HTML pages can be well generated.

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