Yes, I have added it to my local copy and am running the site build (for the
nth time) in preparation for the release.
Ralph
> On Nov 6, 2020, at 8:40 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's supposed to be a variable declaration at the top of the
> velocity file to define the dollar variable to '$'. It's not automatic
> from what I remember, so copy/paste from another .vm file. :)
>
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 06:51, Volkan Yazıcı <volkan.yaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> json-template-layout.adoc.vm (in both release-2.x and master branches) gets
>> processed in such a way that dollar ($) characters are not properly
>> handled. That is, after `./mvnw site`, json-template-layout.html still
>> contains "${dollar}" snippets.
>>
>> Note that there are various usages of dollar ($) character in the file.
>> Some in the code snippets, some in the paragraphs, etc. In particular, in
>> the following paragraph:
>>
>> Yes, link:lookups.html[lookups] (e.g., `${dollar}{java:version}`,
>> `${dollar}{env:USER}`, `${dollar}{date:MM-dd-yyyy}`) are supported in string
>> literals of templates. Though note that they are not garbage-free.
>>
>> ${dollar} literals converted to HTML as is. If I replace them with a single
>> dollar ($) character, this time I get the following error during
>> compilation:
>>
>> [*ERROR*] Failed to execute goal
>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.8.2:site *(default-site)*
>> on project log4j: *Error parsing
>> src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc.vm as a Velocity
>> template: Encountered ":version}`,\n`" at
>> /home/vy/Projects/log4j/2/src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc.vm[line
>> 1236, column 47]*
>>
>> Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this, please?
>>
>> Kind regards.
>
