From: Pete S. <pst...@gm...> - 2008-06-10 19:06:30
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DM = D.B. Moore DM> Greetings, DM> Most all of the linux specific texts are finished, so I've spent this past DM> week with my electronics repair technician's hat on debugging/reworking DM> PCB jobs. Those jobs behind me, I've returned here and noted Pete DM> has changed some things in the tex2rtf source code, related to the DM> earlier discovery of how tex2rtf is handling embedded mark-ups in DM> the jazz.tex file with the HTML conversion path... The Tex2RTF code was using <UL></UL> for underline, but this tag is for an unordered list. The deprecated tag is <U></U>. I tried using the new recommended HTML style tag for underlining, but the wxWidgets HTML help control didn't parse it properly so I had to fall back to the deprecated <U></U>. DM> I'm guessing this is going to change a few things (build wise) for people DM> building from (svn) source -- I imagine this won't affect binary releases DM> (when they happen) at all. I don't think we have build instructions for Tex2RTF anywhere. We need to do this soon so we can integrate the help you are writing with the code. DM> The changes made to tex2rtf by Pete, now render this separate tex2rtf DM> fork as being functionally disparate from that tex2rtf source contained DM> (at the moment) in the wxWidgets package. As we've noted, 'at the DM> moment' is very much that, and tex2rtf might drop out of the wxWidgets DM> tree at some future juncture. I has been removed from the wxWidgets Subversion HEAD. DM> I would deduce from all this, that the mark-up issues coupled with DM> tex2rtf's uncertain future in the wxWidgets tree, has left Pete little DM> other choice than to fix/alter tex2rtf for jazz++ use, and also make DM> such available as it's own separate package release for builders DM> of jazz++ from source tarball/svn gets... DM> DM> One could suppose that the tex2rtf in the wxWidgets tree is going DM> to remain static from now until the end of it's days there, and that DM> one could probably patch the wxWidgets tree to include the changes DM> to the tex2rtf sources + alter config scripts so tex2rtf gets DM> defaultly built as part of the current 'building wxWidgets' DM> instructions - this still means users have to undertake an DM> extra set of steps here, either download and apply the patch DM> as part of the wx build, or else download, build and install the DM> tex2rtf package ; IMHO this latter option is the way to go... When the new wxWidgets comes out, I'm hoping to make Jazz++ work with it. Tex2RTF will not be in the wxWidgets source tree for the next version, so Jazz++ is supplying it. It really should be a separate project. DM> This of course all infers that there will be changes pending to the DM> content of htdocs as a result -- having been forewarned, I too DM> have the whole coming week 'free' to do with as I see fit ... so DM> Pete, just toss any of this at me when you get to it. The DM> pending content still to be added to jazz.tex will appear DM> as a number of patches after all this spinning is resolved. I dropped my wife off at the airport yesterday. The airport and my place of work are 50 miles (about a 1 hour drive) from my residence. She had some flight delays and I sayed at work until all was resolved... About 10:00 PM local time, so may Jazz++ work will start today. Let's get help building and tied to the code so you can see how that works. It's going to take me a while to get caught up. I just noticed the last update message I received was from May 27, and was version 579. We are on version 593 and I have no idea where those commit messages went. Today I received an administrative email telling me my own verizon account address was removed from jazzplusplus-devel list. Another poor soul with a verizon account was also dropped. I tried chatting with verizon, but no joy. Very frustrating. I wish I had the resources to host some of this stuff. Let me try to apply your patches and see if we can get on the same page with respect to help generation. Pete |