From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 11 16:55:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACA937BC55; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:55:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03727; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:55:34 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Sean Kelly Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Nik Clayton , jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Including images in the documentation Message-ID: <20000511165534.A24554@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000509143555.A1692@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <200005100942.CAA34333@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000511005914.A85566@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000511103919.I25150@lucifer.bart.nl> <013e01bfbb9e$93afebb0$24d39580@jpl.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <013e01bfbb9e$93afebb0$24d39580@jpl.nasa.gov>; from kelly@ad1440.net on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:13:52PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:13:52PM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: > Which would depend on a bunch of the XML processing tools, too, since the > SVG DTD is an XML application, not SGML. (Which would be fine by me ... > I've got plenty of disk space, and plenty of XML tools installed already. > :-) It's a way's off, but we'll almost certaintly convert for SGML to XML someday for the simple reason that DocBook is doing that. I don't think it would be unreasionale to have a NO_IMAGES make variable to allow people do build docs with the images stripped out (and thus without the SVG tools). I don't think we'll be embeding ASCII art version of raster images in the text format of the docs anyway. (The idea of a text copy of the handbook with an ASCII picture of Nik doing his Peter Norton impression is just a weird image. ;-) > As for EPS as the superformat ... well, I like the simplicity of having a > single storage format, but it's not always plain text, if I recall > correctly. PostScript Level 2 (and up) allows bitmap images in an EPS file > to be encoded using a variety of different mechanisms, some of the binary > (right?). Raster and vector data have so little in common that is seems like a very bad idea to try to have a single representation. Vector data seems to be a good fit for a human editable text system like SVG, but raster data just begs for a compressed, packed binary format like PNG. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message