Where is tex2rtf in wx3.0?

[Michael Uman]

Hello,

I have a project which builds documentation from a Latex document using the
'tex2rtf' tool from wxWidgets. Now it seems that this tool is no longer
provided with wxWidgets 3.0.

Is this intentional or is this an oversight? What do people do if they want
to generate wxWidgets help files from latex documents?

Thank you,
Michael Uman

[Bryan Petty]

Post by Michael Uman
I have a project which builds documentation from a Latex document using the
'tex2rtf' tool from wxWidgets. Now it seems that this tool is no longer
provided with wxWidgets 3.0.
Is this intentional or is this an oversight? What do people do if they want
to generate wxWidgets help files from latex documents?

This was intentional. The tool was discontinued in 2009 when the
wxWidgets documentation was rewritten using Doxygen for 2.9+. It was
never very reliably maintained even up until that point for years.

You can still continue to use TeX2RTF compiled from wxWidgets 2.8 for
years to come, but I would highly recommend getting a plan in place to
make your documentation compatible with other LaTeX tools, or do a
migration to some other documentation tool entirely as wxWidgets has.

[Bryan Petty]

Post by Bryan Petty

Post by Michael Uman
I have a project which builds documentation from a Latex document using the
'tex2rtf' tool from wxWidgets. Now it seems that this tool is no longer
provided with wxWidgets 3.0.
Is this intentional or is this an oversight? What do people do if they want
to generate wxWidgets help files from latex documents?

This was intentional. The tool was discontinued in 2009 when the
wxWidgets documentation was rewritten using Doxygen for 2.9+. It was
never very reliably maintained even up until that point for years.

Just a quick correction, this was actually in early 2008, and you're
not the first to miss this, you might be interested in helping
maintain the fork here:
http://jazzplusplus.sourceforge.net/tex2rtf/

[Michael Uman]

Ok,

Here is what I did... I have the complete wxWidgets git repository from
github (merged into my own git repository containing our Scintilla parser
for SPASM) and I checked out the WX_2_8_BRANCH, configured it for static
libraries (--disable-shared) and built the project. I copied the resulting
tex2rtf executable into my own local user ~/bin directory (which is in my
path) and now my build scripts are working like champions.

I would like to know why tex2rtf was dropped from the 3.0 branch though?
This is an added headache to support on other development machines.

Thanks,
Michael Uman

Post by Michael Uman
Hello,
I have a project which builds documentation from a Latex document using
the 'tex2rtf' tool from wxWidgets. Now it seems that this tool is no longer
provided with wxWidgets 3.0.
Is this intentional or is this an oversight? What do people do if they
want to generate wxWidgets help files from latex documents?
Thank you,
Michael Uman