Frank Sundermeyer - 2015-07-10

Since we have been asked for webhelp support multiple time after having released 2.0 and implementing it took less time than expected, we proudly present DAPS 2.1.1 with webhelp support. And while we were at it, we also did a few other changes...

Download & Installation

Download DAPS 2.1.1
For download alternatives and installation instructions refer to https://github.com/openSUSE/daps/blob/master/INSTALL.adoc

New Features

  • added support for webhelp
    Please note the following when using the DocBook webhelp
    stylesheets:
    • building with ROOTID should be avoided (does not generate sidebar)
    • building webhelp is slow; speed up by adjusting the chunk size.
      Recommended parameters are:
      chunk.fast 1 and chunk.section.depth 0
  • added support for <xi:include ... parse="text"> (issue #71)
  • handling of passing XSLT parameters on the command line has been improved (issue #263), use
    • --param "KEY=VALUE" and --stringparam "KEY=VALUE"
    • each parameter can be specified multiple times
    • both parameters are supported for the following subcommands:
      epub, html, man, pdf, text, webhelp
    • changes only apply to the command-line - settings in the DC-file
      still need to be done with XSLTPARAM as before
    • use of --xsltparam still supported for compatibility reasons, but
      should be avoided; support will be removed in future versions
  • added support for profiling attribute outputformat by introducing PROFOUTPUTFORMAT (issue #279)

Bugfixes and Enhancements

  • improved handling of documents that do not need to be profiled
  • daps_autobuild: changed the order of builds to increase performance
  • bugfix package-src: removed extraneous text
  • bugfix daps_autobuild: in case no rebuild was necessary, rsync deleted the previous results
  • bugfix DB4 -> DB5 migration: Fixed various issues in the migration stylesheet
  • fix for issue #274 (PDF Index Building Fails Because of Empty Profiling Directory)
  • fix for issue #275 (Avoid Same Target Names in Different Makefiles)
  • fix for issue #276 (PROFILE_URN Detection Depends on Position of PI in Document)
  • fix for issue #277 (Debugging Targets Fail when xml:lang is not set)
  • fix for issue #278 (Avoid Using "LANGUAGE" as a Variable Name)
  • fix for issue #280 (Webhelp: Common/ Directory Contains Dead Symbolic Links)
  • replaced Chinese font "FZSongTi" with "wqy-microhei" in the default config file for XEP (XEP_CONFIG_FILE=etc/xep/xep-daps.xml)

Support

If you have got questions regarding DAPS, please use the discussion forum at https://sourceforge.net/p/daps/discussion/General/ . We will do our best to help.

Bug Reports

To report bugs or file enhancement issues, use the issue Tracker at https://github.com/openSUSE/daps/issues .

The DAPS Project

DAPS is developed by the SUSE Linux documentation team and used to generate the product documentation for all SUSE Linux products. However, it is not exclusively tailored for SUSE documentation, but supports every documentation written in DocBook 4 and DocBook 5.

DAPS has been tested on Debian Wheezy, Fedora 20/21 openSUSE 13.x, SLE 12, and Ubuntu 14.10.

DAPS is hosted on GitHub.

 

Last edit: Frank Sundermeyer 2015-07-10