Workbench 2 and 3 Documentation HTML Build Fails (Output file test failed)

Partial Solution

Wolfram Workbench 2 and 3 are not able to launch the front end (Mathematica 10+) to create the final HTML. The solution is to use the new (Eclipse-plugin) version, downloadable from: https://www.wolfram.com/workbench/. Which is also free when you have purchased a Mathematica license.

Some issues with the HTML

edit: I took the time to document the steps bellow in more detail here.

I encountered some issues with the generated HTML (my best guess is that the HTML for local viewing, as Wolfram is calling it, is not updated). Not sure if I fixed this in the right place, so please if you have a better solution let me know. These fixes should be done in the

• in fonts.css (either in the minimal or standard folder) the font SourceSansPro-Semibold.woff seems to have an incorrect path replace all: /fonts/sourcesanspro/v8/fonts/SourceSansPro with /fonts/sourcesanspro/v8/SourceSansPro
• the folder: images/mathematicaIncludes does not seem to be copied for local viewing.
• It is not possible to click to code to copy (like on the Mathematica site). Change the jquery version to 1.7.2 (already in the export), and add the clipboards.js from Wolfram: http://reference.wolfram.com/2013/javascript/clipboard.js, The styling can be fixed by: http://reference.wolfram.com/2013/css/clipboard.css. Don't forget to also include the two images: http://reference.wolfram.com/2013/images/[email protected] and http://reference.wolfram.com/2013/images/[email protected]
• The collapsed pages (like Scope and options) do not show the code sniplets but the text Click code to copy. Apparently the sub-pages.js is outdated, i looked up which they used on their site: http://reference.wolfram.com/2013/javascript/sub-pages.js. This fixes the problem.
• Links on the top right corner (see also) relative path is not correct, leading to a dead page.

This is not an answer but an extended comment. I'm on macos 10.12.1 with v11.0.1 and I'm using this version of the eclipse (for java developers) wolfram plugin:

I wanted to put up pictures of all the glitches from the html export process:

• Corrupted input cells:

  

• Corrupted input and output cells:

  

• Missing input cells:

  

• Arrows not formatting:

  

• Broken extended examples sections:

  

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• Frank Martin was able to get this click to copy button working: