Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Donald's Patches

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

PS = Pete Stieber
PS>> After I did some hand merging of changes I made that
PS>> were already in the Subversion repository, but not
PS>> in the patch you sent me, I committed the FAQ patch.
PS>>
PS>> I built the HTML help based on the jazz.tex patch,
PS>> but noticed that Tex2RTF was using the wrong HTML
PS>> tag for underlined text.  Tex2RTF inserted <UL></UL>,
PS>> but this is used for indentation, not underlining.
PS>>
PS>> I generated and committed new Tex2RTF Visual Studio
PS>> projects and solutions for Visual Studio .NET 2005
PS>> and 2008.  When building Tex2RTF I noticed I didn't
PS>> have wxUSE_STL set for the Visual Studio wxWidgets
PS>> build, so I changed that along with the wxWidgets
PS>> build instructions for wxWidgets on the web site.
PS>>
PS>> Next I went looking for the proper HTML tag for
PS>> underlining.  The deprecated version is <U></U>.  The
PS>> modern replacement is
PS>> <style="text-decoration:underline;"></styl>, so I put
PS>> this in then Tex2RTF source.  Unfortunately, the
PS>> wxWidgets HTML help controller doesn't understand
PS>> this tag.  I may have to fall back to <U></U>.

DM = D.B. Moore
DM> Yeah, there's a previous posting from myself querying
DM> exactly what  jazz.tex is currently doing...

PS>> I am looking at your patch, but this has caused a
PS>> tangent development spiral.

PS> Umm....excuse my ignorance here, 'tangent
PS> development spiral'...?

This just means I was reviewing you patch and noticed problems with 
Tex2RTF and set off to fix them before finishing the review of your patch.


Pete