Publishing a document using the Rational Tau add-in

You can publish documents from IBM® Rational® Tau using the IBM Rational Publishing Engine to publish documents.

Before you begin

Install the following applications:

About this task

Note: You cannot access the Document Studio or Launcher user interfaces while you are using the Rational Publishing Engine add-in to publish a document.

Procedure

  1. Install and configure the Rational Tau add-in.
    1. See Installing IBM Rational Publishing Engine clients or, if you have already installed Rational Publishing Engine, Modifying the Rational Publishing Engine installation with add-ins.
  2. Select Tools > Customize > Add-ins > RPE and click Close.
  3. In the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for the Tau installation, set the path to the Rational Tau bin folder.
    • Windows icon Example: C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\TAU\4.3\bin
    • Linux icon Example:[root@RHAS5U4 RPE]# /usr/local/user/RPE/start_rpe_launcher.sh
  4. To publish documents:
    1. Select Publish > Generate Document.
    2. Click Next.
    3. Select a template and click Next.
    4. In the Configure the Output window, click Add Output and select the output types.
    5. In the Style sheet column, click the ellipsis icon and select a style sheet for HTML and Microsoft Word output types.
    6. In the File Path column, click the ellipsis icon and select an output file path.
    7. Click Finish.

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