Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] SF.net SVN: jazzplusplus: [595] trunk/jazz/src/HelpFiles/jazz.tex

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

> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:01:20 -0700
> Subject: Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] SF.net SVN: jazzplusplus: [595] trunk/jazz/src/HelpFiles/jazz.tex
> 
> DM = D.B. Moore
> DM> Note: this has been quietly BCC'd to Pete's verizon
> DM> account 'cos I believe he's missing mail, thank you
> DM> not verizon....
> 
> I'm using my gmail account so I should be getting everything.  It's 
> Thursday afternoon and I'm just getting around to working on Jazz++.
> 
> So much for the "week of Jazz++ code" ;-)
> 
.....stuff happens - you can never plan for stuff...

>
> DM> When you mention the issue with /U UL and such
> DM> with tex2rtf, am I right in concluding that a lot
> DM> of error issues I am seeing are so related to
> DM> 'deprecated' style usage? For example...what I'm
> DM> finding is \urlref or such is now \url (if I'm
> DM> right?)
> 
> \urlref is specific to tex2rtf.  Look online for tex2rtf help.  I'm 
> confused about what program is complaining.
> 

..any 'modern' tex based thing complains. 'Modern' sort of 
infers post-1999 I think...

I checked the tex2rtf help (in it's src-tree)...

It doesn't actually conclude a position of being able to 
path specify the image_include_dir....which is in equivalence
to this situation. In fact, this notion isn't discussed at all...

...what one can consider is _inferred_ by the tex2rtf help docs,
is a situation example in usage where the words read "make sure
the image file you wish to include, is in the same directory as the
tex file being processed " ...or such'n'similar. This morsel of text,
coupled with the observed behaviour, leads me to believe this is
a limitation hardcoded into tex2rtf itself somewhere....

I had a bit of a peek, and it looks like this stuff is handled in
tex2rtf/src/htmlutil.cpp &or tex2any.cpp &or rtfutils.cpp or such.
Cee I can sometimes deal with, cee++ I cannot....but at least
now I've a better grip on what going on....



> DM> and for whatever reason the editor was
> DM> auto-suggesting me to use \underline{ } ...which
> DM> of course tex2rtf gets wrong, so instead of...
> 
> Well, I fixed the \underline issue in tex2rtf, so you need to update it, 
> rebuild it, and reinstall it.  You may want to stay away from 
> underlining in an HTML doc because links are underlined too.
> 

Ok, I'll take that onboard...



> DM> So I've removed those tics for now so the html still
> DM> looks sane. Knowing very little, I don't want to fall
> DM> into the trap of reading the latest and greatest tex/latex
> DM> documentation, when I need to restrict the format
> DM> of the jazz.tex file to the 'older' feature set
> DM> supported by tex2rtf.  Perhaps if tex2rtf did become
> DM> it's own separate project one day, these sorts of
> DM> issues would be top-of-the-list of things todo.....
> DM> however, if I need keep jazz.tex correct to an older
> DM> guideline, it'd be handy to know exactly where that
> DM> line is.
> 
> I'm not sure myself at this point.  Let's tackle them one at a time.
> 

.....okidoki...

<  snip >

> DM> The actual experience has turned out to leave me
> DM> feeling somewhat dazed and confused, although he
> DM> did say in parting that I was welcome to use his
> DM> his winXP box while he was gone.
> 
> How old is he?  He may be back (with laundry) sooner than you think ;-)
>

He'll be 18 in a few months - he's achieved a number of regulatory 
certificates over the past months (including his drivers license) needed 
here so he can work on construction sites...he operates heavy earth 
moving equipment + does surveying tasks. He'll be working across sites
in northern New South Wales about 500kilometers distant from here. He
should make a lot of money, get himself a car (finally...), and I'm kinda 
hunching he'll return to academia later, probably to study bio-organic
chemistry or something else in chemistry itself....he's fairly fascinated by
the subject. Regarding laundry...well, I'll imagine your local social models
are close to those here down-under, and if so I think you'll find that the
incidence of children/teenagers doing their own laundry is always much
higher in single-parent households like mine..  ;-) 
 
> He might notice a copy of TortioseSVN loaded on his Windows XP box ;-)
> 
......(oh good grief, that means I'd have to put an SDK on it)....

Regards,

Donald B

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