[jazzplusplus-devel] tex2rtf changes noted

[D.B. M. <db...@ho...>]

Greetings,
                  Most all of the linux specific texts are finished, so I've spent this past
week with my electronics repair technician's hat on debugging/reworking PCB jobs.
Those jobs behind me, I've returned here and noted Pete has changed some things
in the tex2rtf source code, related to the earlier discovery  of how tex2rtf is handling
embedded mark-ups in the jazz.tex file with the HTML conversion path...

I'm guessing this is going to change a few things (build wise) for people building from
(svn) source -- I imagine this won't affect binary releases (when they happen) at all.

The changes made to tex2rtf by Pete, now render this separate tex2rtf fork as being
functionally disparate from that tex2rtf source contained (at the moment) in the wxWidgets
package. As we've noted, 'at the moment' is very much that, and tex2rtf might drop out of 
the wxWidgets tree at some future juncture. I would deduce from all this, that the mark-up
issues coupled with tex2rtf's uncertain future in the wxWidgets tree, has left Pete little other
choice than to fix/alter tex2rtf for jazz++ use, and also make such available as it's own
separate package release for builders of jazz++ from source tarball/svn gets...

One could suppose that the tex2rtf in the wxWidgets tree is going to remain static from
now until the end of it's days there, and that one could probably patch the wxWidgets
tree to include the changes to the tex2rtf sources + alter config scripts so tex2rtf gets
defaultly built as part of the current 'building wxWidgets' instructions - this still means
users have to undertake an extra set of steps here, either download and apply the patch 
as part of the wx build, or else download, build and install the tex2rtf package ; IMHO
this latter option is the way to go...


This of course all infers that there will be changes pending to the content of htdocs
as a result -- having been forewarned, I too have the whole coming week 'free' to 
do with as I see fit ... so Pete, just toss any of this at me when you get to it. The
pending content still to be added to jazz.tex will appear as a number of patches
after all this spinning is resolved.


Regards,

Donald B

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