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<div class="procedure"><a id="idp126912"></a><p class="title"><strong>Procedure 1. To install the package</strong></p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>The examples in this procedure assume a Windows
installation, but the process is the same in other
environments, <span class="foreignphrase"><em class="foreignphrase">mutatis
mutandis</em></span>. In an environment where unix
shell command are available, you can also use the
<code class="filename">Makefile.sample</code> as a starting point
for creating your build script. To use
<code class="filename">Makefile.sample</code> you must have
<span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span> and <span class="command"><strong>java</strong></span>
available in your <code class="envar">PATH</code>. You can also use
the <a class="ulink" href="http://docbkx-tools.sourceforge.net/docbkx-samples/manual.html" target="_top">Docbkx Maven plugin</a> to generate webhelp.</p></div><ol class="procedure" type="1"><li class="step"><p>If necessary, install <a class="ulink" href="http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp" target="_top">Java
1.6</a> or higher.</p><ol type="a" class="substeps"><li class="step"><p>Confirm that Java is installed and in your <code class="envar">PATH</code> by typing the
following at a command prompt: </p><pre class="programlisting">java -version</pre><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>To build the indexer, you must have the JDK.</p></div></li></ol></li><li class="step"><p>If necessary, install <a class="ulink" href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi" target="_top">Apache
Ant</a> 1.8.0 or higher. See <a class="ulink" href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html" target="_top">Ant installation instructions</a>.</p><ol type="a" class="substeps"><li class="step"><p>Unzip the Ant binary distribution to a convenient location on your system. For
example: <code class="filename">c:\Program Files</code>.</p></li><li class="step"><p>Set the environment variable <code class="envar">ANT_HOME</code> to the top-level Ant
directory. For example: <code class="filename">c:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.8.0</code>. </p><div class="tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3><p>See <a class="ulink" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519" target="_top">How To Manage
Environment Variables in Windows XP</a> for information on setting
environment variables.</p></div></li><li class="step"><p>Add the Ant <code class="filename">bin</code> directory to your <code class="envar">PATH</code>. For
example: <code class="filename">c:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.8.0\bin</code></p></li><li class="step"><p>Confirm that Ant is installed by typing the following at a command prompt:
</p><pre class="programlisting">ant -version</pre><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>If you see a message about the file <code class="filename">tools.jar</code> being
missing, you can safely ignore it.</p></div></li></ol></li><li class="step"><p>Download <a class="ulink" href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/saxon/saxon6-5-5.zip" target="_top">Saxon
6.5.x</a> and unzip the distribution to a convenient location on your file system.
You will use the path to <code class="filename">saxon.jar</code> in <a class="xref" href="ch02s01.html#edit-build-properties" title="Step 5">Step 5</a> below.</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>The <code class="filename">build.xml</code> has only been tested with Saxon 6.5, though
it could be adapted to work with other XSLT processors. However, when you generate
output, the Saxon jar must <span class="bold"><strong>not</strong></span> be in your
<code class="envar">CLASSPATH</code>.</p></div></li><li class="step"><p>Download <a class="ulink" href="https://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/" target="_top">Xerces2
Java</a> and extract it to a convenient location on
your file system. You will need the
<code class="filename">xercesImpl.jar</code> and
<code class="filename">xml-apis.jar</code> from this distribution
in in <a class="xref" href="ch02s01.html#edit-build-properties" title="Step 5">Step 5</a>. </p></li><li class="step"><a id="edit-build-properties"></a><p>In a text editor, edit the
<code class="filename">build.properties</code> file in the
webhelp directory and make the changes indicated by the comments.</p><div class="important" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Important</h3><p>You must set appropriate values for
<code class="code">xslt-processor-classpath</code>,
<code class="code">xercesImpl.jar</code>, and
<code class="code">xml-apis.jar</code>.</p></div><p>See the DocBook <a class="ulink" href="../../../doc/html/webhelp.html" target="_top">reference
documentation</a> for detailed information about the
available webhelp and other parameters. Note that not all
DocBook parameters are passed in to the xsls by the
<code class="filename">build.xml</code> by default. You may need
to modify the <code class="filename">build.xml</code> to pass in
some DocBook
parameters.</p><pre class="programlisting">
# The path (relative to the build.xml file) to your input document.
# To use your own input document, create a build.xml file of your own
# and import this build.xml.
input-xml=docsrc/readme.xml
# The directory in which to put the output files.
# This directory is created if it does not exist.
output-dir=docs
# If you are using a customization layer that imports webhelp.xsl, use
# this property to point to it.
stylesheet-path=${ant.file.dir}/xsl/webhelp.xsl
# If your document has image directories that need to be copied
# to the output directory, you can list patterns here.
# See the Ant documentation for fileset for documentation
# on patterns.
#input-images-dirs=images/**,figures/**,graphics/**
# By default, the ant script assumes your images are stored
# in the same directory as the input-xml. If you store your
# image directories in another directory, specify it here.
# and uncomment this line.
#input-images-basedir=/path/to/image/location
<span class="emphasis"><em># Modify the follosing so that they point to your local
# copy of the jars indicated:
# * Saxon 6.5 jar
# * Xerces 2: xercesImpl.jar
# * xml-commons: xml-apis.jar
xslt-processor-classpath=/usr/share/java/saxon-6.5.5.jar
xercesImpl.jar=/usr/share/java/xercesImpl.jar
xml-apis.jar=/usr/share/java/xml-apis.jar
</em></span>
# For non-ns version only, this validates the document
# against a dtd.
validate-against-dtd=true
# The extension for files to be indexed (html/htm/xhtml etc.)
html.extension=html
# Set this to false if you don't need a search tab.
webhelp.include.search.tab=true
# indexer-language is used to tell the search indexer which language
# the docbook is written. This will be used to identify the correct
# stemmer, and punctuations that differs from language to language.
# see the documentation for details. en=English, fr=French, de=German,
# zh=Chinese, ja=Japanese etc.
webhelp.indexer.language=en
# Enables/Disables stemming
# Stemming allows better querying for the search
enable.stemming=true
# Set admon.graphics to 1 to user graphics for note, tip, etc.
admon.graphics=0
suppress.footer.navigation=0</pre></li><li class="step"><p>Test the package by running the command <code class="code">ant
webhelp -Doutput-dir=test-ouput</code> at the command
line in the webhelp directory. It should generate a copy
of this documentation in the <code class="filename">doc</code> directory. Type <code class="code">start
test-output\index.html</code> to open the output in a
browser. Once you have confirmed that the process worked,
you can delete the <code class="filename">test-output</code> directory. </p></li><li class="step"><p>To process your own document, simply refer to this package from another
<code class="filename">build.xml</code> in arbitrary location on your system:</p><ol type="a" class="substeps"><li class="step"><p>Create a new <code class="filename">build.xml</code> file that defines the name of your
source file, the desired output directory, and imports the
<code class="filename">build.xml</code> from this package. For example:
</p><pre class="programlisting"><project>
<property name="input-xml" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/yourfile.xml</code></em>"/>
<property name="input-images-dirs" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>images/** figures/** graphics/**</code></em>"/>
<property name="output-dir" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/desired-output-dir</code></em>"/>
<import file="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/docbook-webhelp/</code></em>build.xml"/>
</project></pre></li><li class="step"><p>From the directory containing your newly created <code class="filename">build.xml</code>
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| #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. |