[Fwd: Re: OpenOffice]

[Borut Bolčina <bo...@najdi.si>]

Hi, are there any guidelines or rules of how to write in OpenOffice 
(which styles to use) to be able to produce pages like it is 
demonstrated at http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v20.html.

I also took a peek at apache lenya. If only I could integrate forrest 
with editing capabilities of lenya's build in editors.

Is the majority of forrest doc written by hand in xdoc? Any other 
techniques?

-Borut


Amazing! =-O    It works!

On 8.9.2005 15:44, Thorsten Scherler wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 15:38 +0200, Borut Bolčina wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello list!
>>
>>I am evaluating Forrest for our new project to serve as project 
>>documentation framework. I installed and played with it a bit. Soon I 
>>found OpenOffice input plugin.
>>
>>I added two versions of the same file (.sxw and a new .odt) to 
>>doc\src\documentation\content\xdocs\samples and edited site.xml to add 
>>navigation to those 2 files.
>>
>>...
>><faq label="FAQ" href="faq.html" description="Frequently Asked Questions" />
>>    <OpenOffice-v1 label="OpenOffice v1" href="testOO.sxw" 
>>description="OO test v1"></OpenOffice-v1>
>>    <OpenOffice-v2 label="OpenOffice v2" href="testOO.odt" 
>>description="OO test v2"></OpenOffice-v2>
>>    <subdir label="Subdir" href="subdir/">
>>...
>>
>>Then I did forrest (builded ok). The menu did show new items, but after 
>>clicking them a download dialog appeared. I thought the conversion to 
>>HTML will occur. The plugin installed correctly I think.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>;-) You will get what you define.
><OpenOffice-v2 label="OpenOffice v2" href="testOO.odt"/>
>
>If you want html:
><OpenOffice-v2 label="OpenOffice v2" href="testOO.html"/>
>
>HTH
>
>  
>
>>I did not found documentation on this topic. Can you help please?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Borut
>>    
>>

Re: [Fwd: Re: OpenOffice]

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Borut Bolčina wrote:
> Hi, are there any guidelines or rules of how to write in OpenOffice 
> (which styles to use) to be able to produce pages like it is 
> demonstrated at http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v20.html.

There is a a template document in the plugin docs, you can see its 
output at 
http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_70/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.OpenOffice.org/samples/openoffice-writer.html

You will find it on your local install or at 
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/forrest/trunk/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.OpenOffice.org/src/documentation/content/xdocs/samples/openoffice-writer-howto.sxw

[NOTE to Forrest Devs, we need to patch the plugin docs so that this 
file can be downloaded from the plugin docs site]

> I also took a peek at apache lenya. If only I could integrate forrest 
> with editing capabilities of lenya's build in editors.

We are working on this with the Lenya folk, but there is no ETA yet. We 
already have dull integration with the Daisy CMS 
(http://www.cocoondev.org/daisy) although this is only for 1.2 (they 
just released 1.3). The changes needed for 1.3 support are minimal.

The work on the Lenya plugin is also fairly minimal if you would like to 
join us on the dev list and get it working. It really depends on the 
strength of your need.

> Is the majority of forrest doc written by hand in xdoc? Any other 
> techniques?

We tend to write them by hand at this time, it's easy for technical folk 
;-) The Lenya, Daisy and OpenOffice.org plugins are more for the 
non-technical user.

Ross