From owner-freebsd-doc Fri May 12 3: 3:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B807D37BD32; Fri, 12 May 2000 03:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkoshy@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from jkoshy@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id DAA13812; Fri, 12 May 2000 03:03:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkoshy@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 03:03:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Message-Id: <200005121003.DAA13812@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Nik Clayton Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Including images in the documentation In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 May 2000 00:59:14 +0100." <20000511005914.A85566@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org jk> Why not have EPS as the ``base format'' from which other formats are nik> How well are bitmaps covered in EPS? I'm assuming we're going to want AFAIK, bitmaps aren't a problem. EPS is just normal Postscript with a small number of conventions imposed and a few operators forbidden. jk> I18N: How localized is `dia'? Will it serve the needs of the -doc nik> Localized? Do you mean the application, or it's output? The application. Applications that can handle Far Eastern languages with the same ease as western ones are somewhat rare. The point I was trying to make was that if we are mandating a particular tool for generating figures, it should be useable by our translation teams too. It may make more sense to mandate use of a suitably capable file format than a particular application. nik> Is there a visual editor for MetaPost? Dunno, its a programming language after all :). jk> It would be even better to describe our figures in SGML :). Do you know [Various people mentioned the SVG DTD in development by W3C] SVG seems interesting. I hope it takes off. Regards, Koshy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message