I am having difficulty coaxing the "Help → Search" function of my application to show topics related to the useful (and unique) keywords in my application. Only one keyword shows up.
Background: I created several html help pages (examples: index, accuracy, convert) in a subdirectory of my program. If I invoke the master help, the index.html file shows up fine. From there, I can click through to any of the other topic pages.
Problem: If I try using the keyword search function, only "Accuracy" and a blank indicator (that pulls up the index.html) show up. I have other keywords like "coordinates" that should point to a specific page, but aren't showing up.
What I've done so far: In addition to re-skimming the documentation (which at this time, I am a little bleary-eyed), I have run each page through BBEdit's syntax checker. I also searched StackOverflow for information related to the problem. Because the keywords are rather ubiquitous, this was the primary topical match, but I'm well-past that.
The Help Indexer log notes that it's indexed all of the html files, finding KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION meta tags in each (as recommended by the Help Book):
droot.html -- File has KEYWORDS meta tag content being indexed.
gc.html -- File has KEYWORDS meta tag content being indexed.
index.html -- File has KEYWORDS meta tag content being indexed.
droot.html -- File has DESCRIPTION meta tag used for abstract.
gc.html -- File has DESCRIPTION meta tag used for abstract.
index.html -- Finished parsing
droot.html -- Finished parsing
gc.html -- Finished parsing
(etc)
The *.helpindex file in the Release package (?/Contents/Resources/MacFizzyCalcHelp/ directory) is ~25k. I do not know how to inspect its contents, though.
Any thoughts on what I'm missing?
I found the following post on the Apple Support site useful when I ran into a similar problem with the Help topics of my Helpbook not appearing using the Search functions:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3442044
There are many reasons of problems. Once I found that apple developer documentation has a mistake (in describing anchors). Did you register help book in application Info.plist? Does help book contains own info plist file? You can check helpindex file using hiutil. I hope this help you.
I just had the issue of the blank Apple help entry and after several days of trying everything I could think of, finally found the solution. Add META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX" to the blank entry's page (in my case it was index.html, aka the landing page or access page). I then re-indexed the HTML pages and lo, no more blank entry. No need to even delete the help viewer cache.
[Edited as tags hid content :-]
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I've been using Sphinx for my personal website for the past years and realized that I more have a blog with posts and few pages and did the conversion to Nikola in the past days. I also took the opportunity to switch to Markdown as I use it with R and Stack Overflow and everywhere else as well.
I have set in my Sphinx theme to have a local table of contents in the sidebar. There are a handful of very long (over 10k words) posts that would benefit from a local table of contents. I saw that the Nikola manual is written in reST and uses the contents directive. I would like to use that also in those posts.
I could convert these few posts back to reST and use the contents directive, but I'd like to avoid that. Can this be accomplished somehow?
Nikola uses Python-Markdown by default. It supports a TOC extension that one can enable in the conf.py. Then one can use a [TOC] marker anywhere in the document to get a local table of contents.
Updated
Using [TOC] which is a feature of an extension enabled by default. My firts answer was an misinterpretation of your question.
Firts answer
Using Nikola, may be you are interested in "archive" option. This is a default page that include all your posts (optional, this is grouped by date). Example in my blog: https://www.cosmoscalibur.com/archive.html .
In a Maven project with subprojects, each subproject gets an index.html with some content that comes from its POM's description element.
In one of these subprojects, I need that content to contain additional information, including links. There is a section of the doc that suggests I should not do it by trying to put HTML markup in CDATA in the description element (in fact, that doesn't work anyway; the HTML markup just comes out literal). Instead, it suggests there is some better way to get my own content included in the file.
While this element can be specified as CDATA to enable the use of HTML tags
within the description, it is discouraged to allow plain text representation.
If you need to modify the index page of the generated web site, you are able
to specify your own instead of adjusting this text.
Can anyone describe how to do that? I have tried several methods unsuccessfully (I can supply Markdown files with other names and they generate HTML, but a subproject's index.md has no effect on the generated index.html). I have also read about the custom element in site.xml but it seems to require writing a custom Velocity template for the site; I hope the passage "you are able to specify your own" must mean there is some method more straightforward than that.
Of course I would also appreciate a pointer into the docs if there is already an answer I have simply failed to find. (Just pointing me to docs I've already read isn't in itself helpful, though pointing out the answer I missed would be helpful, if it's there.)
In response to inquiries
Directory structure under src/site:
src/site
src/site/resources
src/site/resources/images
src/site/markdown
src/site/markdown/use
src/site/markdown/install
src/site/markdown/examples
src/site/markdown/build
maven-site-plugin version: 3.4
What I mean by 'adding a link':
The part of the index.html that comes from the POM description element
is the central content of the page (not the navigation bar, not the sidebar menus, but the actual content).
I would like that actual-content portion of the page to be able to have a paragraph or two explaining that this is a generated page for developers, and providing links (HTML <a href=...>) for people who arrived at the page from a web search but are really looking for the user-oriented pages.
I can't put that in the description element (even using CDATA), because HTML elements just come out literal. A comment below gives a link to a page on writing a whole custom Velocity template for the site, but is there honestly no simpler way to accomplish this?
I have the same issue. The only thing the generated index.html gives you of value is the list of modules. You can add your own index.md page to src/site/markdown, putting in whatever content you want. To reproduce the list of modules, include something like this:
###Project Modules
This project has declared the following modules:
| Name | Description |
|-|-|
|[Module1 name](module1/index.html)| Module 1 description|
|-|-|
|[Module2 name](module2/index.html)| Module 2 description|
Of course the text is not lifted from the POM. You also have to manually change this file if you have a new module. Not a perfect solution, but the best I could come up with.
Where I wrote:
I can supply Markdown files with other names and they generate HTML,
but a subproject's index.md has no effect on the generated index.html
it turns out the truth is more complex. In a project with subprojects,
there are two places such an index.md might go: in src/site/markdown/subproject-name of the parent project (where all of the other human-written docs for the whole project happen to be), or in a new src/site/markdown directory created within the subproject. A file with any other non-special name can be added in either place, and end up where you expect it in the target. But not for index.md, in that case only the second location can work, and even then, only after a clean.
I had tried both places without success, but trying the second again with a full clean install site site:stage makes it work. Out of the four combinations (parent/clean, parent/noclean, sub/clean, sub/noclean), that was the one I missed trying before posting the question, so of course that's the one that works. :)
If there had been an answer or comment like "hmm, are you sure an index.md in the subproject doesn't work, it works for me?" it probably would have put me quickly back on track. Sometimes after trying several avenues all without success, all that's needed is to know which of them is the one that's supposed to work (if indeed one of them is) and therefore worth spending more time on.
I've got a rather large asciidoc document that I translate dynamically to PDF for our developer guide. Since the doc often refers to Java classes that are documented in our developer guide we converted them into links directly in the docs e.g.:
In this block we create a new
https://www.codenameone.com/javadoc/com/codename1/ui/Form.html[Form]
named `hi`.
This works rather well for the most part and looks great in HTML as every reference to a class leads directly to its JavaDoc making the reference/guide process much simpler.
However when we generate a PDF we end up with something like this on some pages:
Normally I wouldn't mind a lot of footnotes or even repeats from a previous page. However, in this case the link to Container appears 3 times.
I could remove some of the links but I'd rather not since they make a lot of sense on the web version. Since I also have no idea where the page break will land I'd rather not do it myself.
This looks to me like a bug somewhere, if the link is the same the footnote for the link should only be generated once.
I'm fine with removing all link footnotes in the document if that is the price to pay although I'd rather be able to do this on a case by case basis so some links would remain printable
Adding these two parameters in fo-pdf.xsl remove footnotes:
<xsl:param name="ulink.footnotes" select="0"></xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="ulink.show" select="0"></xsl:param>
The first parameter disable footnotes, which triggers urls to re-appear inline.
The second parameter removes urls from the text. Links remain active and clickable.
Non-zero values toggle these parameters.
Source:
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.78.1/doc/fo/ulink.show.html
We were looking for something similar in a slightly different situation and didn't find a solution. We ended up writing a processor that just stripped away some of the links e.g. every link to the same URL within a section that started with '==='.
Not an ideal situation but as far as I know its the only way.
Sorry, Google hasnt been very helpful.
I have a Word Document which references jpeg pictures stored at a different path.
I always instruct word to Link in the file and modify the field code as:
{INCLUDEPICTURE \d"..\\Relative Path\\To\\MyPicture.jpg" }
For some inexplicable reason, if either the picture content changes or if the document is closed and opened several times, the field code is getting updated automatically.
{INCLUDEPICTURE \d"c:\FULL Path\\To\\MyPicture.jpg" \* MERGEFORMATINET }
How do I ensure that the field code remains intact no matter what I do?
I came across this issue too.
I fixed this by using .dot instead of .dotx.
For some reason the newer format is changing the link.
Not a solution, but it is a workaround
Hope it helps
I've recently discovered RapidMiner, and I'm very excited about it's capabilities. However I'm still unsure if the program can help me with my specific needs. I want the program to scrape xpath matches from an URL list I've generated with another program. (it has more options then the 'crawl web' operator in RapidMiner)
I've seen the following tutorials from Neil Mcguigan: http://vancouverdata.blogspot.com/2011/04/web-scraping-rapidminer-xpath-web.html. But the websites I try to scrape have thousands of pages, and I don't want to store them all on my pc. And the web crawler simply lacks critical features so I'm unable to use it for my purposes. Is there a way I can just make it read the URLS, and scrape the xpath's from each of those URLS?
I've also looked at other tools for extracting html from pages, but I've been unable to figure out how they work (or even install) since I'm not a programmer. Rapidminer on the other hand is easy to install, the operator descriptions make sense but I've been unable to connect them in the right order.
I need to have some input to keep the motivation going. I would like to know what operator I could use instead of 'process documents from files.' I've looked at 'process documents from web' but it doesn't have an input, and it still needs to crawl. Any help is much appreciated.
Looking forward to your replies.
Web scraping without saving the html pages internally using RapidMiner is a two step process:
Step 1 Follow the video at http://vancouverdata.blogspot.com/2011/04/rapidminer-web-crawling-rapid-miner-web.html by Neil McGuigan with the following difference:
instead of Crawl Web operator use the Process Documents from Web
operator. There will not be an option to specify the output
directory, because the results will be loaded into the ExampleSet.
ExampleSet will contain links matching the crawling rules.
Step 2 Follow the video at http://vancouverdata.blogspot.com/2011/04/web-scraping-rapidminer-xpath-web.html but only from 7:40 with the following difference:
put the Extract Information subprocess inside the Process Documents from Web which has been created previously.
ExampleSet will contain the links and the attributes matching the XPath queries.
I have quite the same problem than you and maybe these posts from RapidMiner's forum will help you a little :
http://rapid-i.com/rapidforum/index.php/topic,2753.0.html
and
http://rapid-i.com/rapidforum/index.php?topic=3851.0.html
See ya ;)