[Scilab-users] help page. good xmltops.

[Lucien Povy]

Le 26/04/2019 à 22:07, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
> 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 generate.

Hello;

No problem with "xmltops" with scilab -6.0.0 and 6.0.1 and ...

after with good program like "okular" with linux you transform help- 
blabla .ps to help-blabla.pdf.


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