Paul Bolger wrote:
It would be great if you could provide a patch or this. The advantage is
that you will not have to keep your OOo plugin in synch with the one we
release and, of course, we all get the benefit of your work.
I've made a patch, but can't see the option appearing in
forrest.properties in a new seed. Wondering whether I've been
modifying the wrong instance of the plugin. Should it be the one i the
plugins dir?
I'm not following your question here. I never said anything about
forrest.properties, I described a new property system that uses XML
files for properties (forrest.properties.xml and
default.plugin.properties.xml). Can you describe exactly what you mean?
With respect to which plugin to modify. The best process is:
- edit the src in the plugins dir
- do ant local-deploy
In this case you need to restart forrest as the new properties system
does not currently support dynamic reloading.
(ASIDE: We have issues to remove the need to do the local-deploy and to
dynamically reload properties, but they are not implemented yet.)
I also notice, on a slightly different subject, that data loss can
occur with the OOo plugin: If your source doc contains headings deeper
than h5 they are skipped in the output.
Obviously this is not nice... My XSLT isn't good enough to fix this,
but a good thing to do at the moment might to put a warning in the
docs.
And to raise an issue to remind us to fix it. Can you send us a patch
for the docs and apply it to said issue?
Next question: Where are the docs for this plugin?
All plugin docs are in the plugins src directory, e.g.
FORREST_HOME/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.OpenOffice.org
They are just a normal Forrest project.
The link from 0.8 dev is broken
http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.OpenOffice.org
So's the one from 0.7
Yes, see the recent thread on this issue, its a problem of versioned
plugins. We *must* fix this...
I don't mind fixing them, but need to know where the previous ones (if
they exist) are.
They are generated from the plugins.xml file, so it is not a simple case
of editing a doc. See http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-533 for a
n issue for tracking this (and related issues).
I've found
plugins\org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.OpenOffice.org\src\documentation\content\xdocs\samples\openoffice-writer-howto.sxw
But it's really not very informative about the working of the plugin.
That's about it I'm afraid. The code is our only other documentation ;-)
See the input.xmap file which will show you how it works (and ask
questions of course - I'll be online on and off during Forrest Friday if
you want to have a chat to understand things).
Ross
