[Scilab-users] help page. good xmltops.

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Le 27/04/2019 à 17:26, Lucien Povy a écrit :
>
> 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/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 ...

Runs fine. Thanks

S.

>
> after with good program like "okular" with linux you transform help- 
> blabla .ps to help-blabla.pdf.
>
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Stéphane Mottelet
Ingénieur de recherche
EA 4297 Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable
Département Génie des Procédés Industriels
Sorbonne Universités - Université de Technologie de Compiègne
CS 60319, 60203 Compiègne cedex
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