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oxygenxml / dita-latex

DITA Open Toolkit plugin which allows publishing embedded Latex mathematical equations to HTML and PDF
Apache License 2.0
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Working with standalone DITA-OT? #2

Closed smartmic closed 4 years ago

smartmic commented 4 years ago

I am new to DITA and want to test some functionalities (among those LaTeX equations) before switching for "real" documentation projects. I have the same problems like in the other issue and saw your comment . But I do not have Oxygen installed. Is it a requirement or can I run this plugin also only with DITA-OT (dita) on the command line ? I tried this but the output, both HTML and PDF, remains empty when using the testEquation.dita file as input.

raducoravu commented 4 years ago

The plugin, once copied to the DITA OT "plugins" folder and installed/integrated should just work, even from the command line. Did you test the publishing against the samples I prepared in the project?

https://github.com/oxygenxml/dita-latex/tree/master/com.oxygenxml.latex.svg/samples

Is there any error reported in the DITA OT console output if you use the "-v -d" command line arguments when starting the "dita" command line?

smartmic commented 4 years ago

There is a problem already at installation, I got this error after running dita install: Error: Plug-in com.oxygenxml.latex.svg uses an undefined extension point com.oxygenxml.pdf.css.xsl.merged2html5

raducoravu commented 4 years ago

Alright, that's easy to fix, remove from the plugin.xml this line:

<feature extension="com.oxygenxml.pdf.css.xsl.merged2html5" value="xsl/xhtmlSVG.xsl" type="file"/>

unfortunately I cannot specify in the plugin.xml that an extension point is optional and that the integrator should not fail if a certain plugin is not installed.

smartmic commented 4 years ago

Yep, that was the culprit, fixed it. Thank you very much for the help and the work on this very nice plugin! The result looks beautiful both in PDF and HTML.

raducoravu commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the kind words 👍