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<p>A common requirement for technical publications groups is to produce a Web-based help
format that includes a table of contents pane, a search feature, and an index similar to what
you get from the Microsoft HTML Help (.chm) format or Eclipse help. If the content is help for
a Web application that is not exposed to the Internet or requires that the user be logged in,
then it is impossible to use services like Google to add search. <a id="idp99472" class="indexterm"></a>
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><p class="title"><strong>Features</strong></p><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>Sophisticated CSS-based page layout</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Client-side search.<a id="idp102640" class="indexterm"></a></p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: circle; "><li class="listitem"><p>Provides full content search of the documentation. Shows the search results with
links to chunked pages, and a small description.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Search results scoring/rating - The results are weighted according to how many
times the words in search query appears in it, is it bold or not, is in index terms
etc. The score out of 5 is shown by small colored boxes after each
search-result.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Search results can include brief descriptions of the target.<a id="idp107424" class="indexterm"></a></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Stemming support for English, French, and German. Stemming support can be added
for other languages by implementing a stemmer.<a id="idp109952" class="indexterm"></a></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages using code from the Lucene search
engine.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Search highlighting shows where the searched term appears in the results.
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You can use the ant build file by importing it into your
own or use it as a model for integrating this output
format into your own build system. Alternatively, you can
use the build scripts as a template for creating your own
script. You can also generate webhelp from DocBook using
the <a class="ulink" href="http://docbkx-tools.sourceforge.net/docbkx-samples/manual.html" target="_top">Docbkx Maven plugin</a>.</p></li></ul></div></div><script type="text/javascript" src="common/main.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="common/splitterInit.js"></script><div class="navfooter"><hr></hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr></table></div></div><div id="sidebar"><div id="leftnavigation" style="padding-top:3px;"><div id="tabs"><ul><li><a href="#treeDiv" style="outline:0;" tabindex="1"><span class="contentsTab">Contents</span></a></li><li><a href="#searchDiv" style="outline:0;" tabindex="1" onclick="doSearch()"><span class="searchTab">Search</span></a></li></ul><div id="treeDiv"><img src="common/images/loading.gif" alt="loading table of contents..." id="tocLoading" style="display:block;"></img><div id="ulTreeDiv" style="display:none"><ul id="tree" class="filetree"><li id="webhelp-currentid"><span class="file"><a href="ch01.html" tabindex="1">Introduction</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02.html" tabindex="1">Using the package</a></span><ul><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s01.html" tabindex="1">Generating webhelp output using the Ant build.xml
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| # | Change | User | Description | Committed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 12728 | eedwards |
Upgrade ANT doc build infrastructure to assemble PDFs: - remove non-namespaced DocBook source and add namespaced DocBook source. - add Apache FOP 1.1 - copy fonts, images, XSL into _build, establishing new asset structure. The original structure remains until all guides using it can be upgraded, and several other issues can be resolved. - updated build.xml to allow for per-target build properties. - upgraded the P4SAG to use the new infrastructure. - tweaked admonition presentation in PDFs to remove admonition graphics, and resemble closely the presentation used in the new HTML layout, including the same colors. With these changes, building PDFs involves using a shell, navigating into the guide's directory (just P4SAG for now), and executing "ant pdf". Issues still to be resolved: - PDF generation encounters several warnings about missing fonts (bold versions of Symbol and ZapfDingbats), and a couple of locations where the page content exceeds the defined content area. - Due to issues within Apache FOP, PDF generation emits a substantial amount of output that is not easily suppressed without losing important warning information. - Apache FOP's interface to ANT does not expose a way to set the font base directory. The current configuration does work under Mac OSX, but further testing on Windows will need to be done to determine if the relative paths defined continue to work. The workaround is for Windows users to customize the fop-config.xml to provide absolute system paths to the required fonts. - HTML generation needs further browser testing, and exhibits broken navigation on iOS browsers within the TOC sidebar. - A number of PDF and HTML presentation tweaks still need to be made, for example: sidebars, gui* DocBook tags, whitespace, section separation, etc. |