[jazzplusplus-devel] online help build system update

[Pete S. <pst...@ve...>]

Donald or anyone else wishing to help with documentation,

If you update your subversion source tree, I have modified the jazz/doc 
directory.  If you have checked out the entire subversion repository so 
you can create patches for the web content, the path to the 
documentation directory is jazzplusplus/trunk/jazz/doc.  On my x86_64 
Fedora 8 box, if I run "make" in the referenced directory, it will 
generate HTML help files you can view with your favorite web browser and 
a jazz.pdf file.

You will need certain tools available to make this work.  For the HTML 
help you will need the tex2rtf code that is provided with wxWidgets.

For PDF generation, you will need a LaTeX installation and the pdflatex 
converter.

If you have trouble with either of these build, you can perform them 
separately by using

make html

for HTML help generation or

make pdf

for PDF file generation.

Keep in mind I'm discussing and working on the build process, not the 
content of the help.  The screen shots used in the docs are from an old 
Jazz++ build and it looks like the Motif Window manager (mwm) was used. 
  They should be replaced.  I'm hoping the image format (Portable 
Network Graphics or PNG - http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/) will stick.

I'll be counting on you to fix up the content;-)  Before I help you with 
that, let's see if you can build the docs in either of the formats 
described above.  Let me know and I enjoyed your "biography post".

BTW, It appears my service provider (verizon.net) is blocking email from 
the Jazz++ lists, so I may end up replying using some other email 
account... What a pain.

Pete