Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 03:03:49 -0700 (PDT) From: <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Including images in the documentation Message-ID: <200005121003.DAA13812@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 May 2000 00:59:14 %2B0100." <20000511005914.A85566@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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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 <jkoshy@freebsd.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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