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From: D.B. M. <db...@ho...> - 2008-05-29 04:10:27
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Greetings, I've been spending most of he current time reformatting the user manual as defined by jazz.tex -- the copy I have here actually looks more like a user manual in layout. I'm sort of waiting for the last lot of patches I submitted to make it into the tree so I can incorporate them into the revised layout (and then I'll know where to link the htdocs to as well ;-) My question here is about jazz.tex itself -- well actually, it's more about tex/latex really...and remember, noodles here knows that much about tex/latex, I didn't even have it installed here, so everything is news to me.. Typically speaking, I might use any text editor to write the actual text, but what is useful (very much so for the purposes of layout) is one or another GUI frontend to the tex/latex toolkit. Thus far, I've given the programs 'texmaker' (OS independant) and 'Kile' a try (yes, KDE app). Both of these look, feel and behave in similar ways. Now...after a brief perusal of these pograms' docs, it seems entirely possible to meld tex2rtf into the setup, and have it as the default document creation utility in such GUI tex/latex editors, and that would lend some parity here with the jazz+= tree itself....but.. When using such programs, and trying to build documentation from the jazz.tex file, the process comes to a grinding halt, because the inbuilt checker/parser howls about tex/latex format error in the jazz.tex file. It suggests that there are syntax errors in the file, however such doesn't seem to bother tex2rtf - it never complains about jazz.tex having such errors...why is this? All I'm thinking here, is that seeing I'm working on what I am with jazz.tex, -if- there are any 'real' errors in the file that should be corrected, they should happen _now_ if possible. Any clues, comments or thoughts? Regards, Donald B _________________________________________________________________ Be part of history. Take part in Australia's first e-mail archive with Email Australia. http://emailaustralia.ninemsn.com.au |