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Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents

From "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents
Date 2016-11-20 00:30 +0100
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> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:55 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I know it's unfashionable these days, but TeX always used to be bloody
>> good at that kind of thing.
>
> You must have used a different TeX than I did.
>
> TeX is a horrible example. The moment you needed to insert anything
> that TeX didn't know about, you were screwed.
>
> I think my go-to for TeX was LaTeX, the "epsfig" thing, and then xfig
> and eps files (using fig2dev). Christ, I get flashbacks just thinking
> about it.

You're right. You included Epson,  which was generated from fig.

Now I'm having flashbacks too, and I actually remember.

> I thought one of the points of Sphinx was to not have to play those games.
>
> I think that graphviz and svg are the reasonable modern formats. Let's
> try to avoid bitmaps in today's world, except perhaps as intermediate
> generated things for what we can't avoid.

Sure, SVG makes sense. It's a text-based format (albeit XML) and it *can*
be edited with a text editor and reasonably kept in version control, at
least if the common tools store it in a diff-friendly way (with some line
breaks occasionally, and maybe no indenting). Do they?


-- 
dwmw2

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Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-11-16 17:10 +0100
  Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - 2016-11-16 21:30 +0100
    Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-11-17 12:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> - 2016-11-17 12:30 +0100
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-11-17 18:30 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-11-17 18:30 +0100
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-17 19:10 +0100
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> - 2016-11-18 10:20 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-11-18 11:30 +0100
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-11-19 18:20 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2016-11-19 18:40 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com> - 2016-11-19 19:00 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2016-11-19 19:00 +0100
            Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-19 19:50 +0100
              Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2016-11-20 00:30 +0100
                Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-11-20 15:30 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-11-19 22:00 +0100
            Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-19 22:10 +0100
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-11-21 11:40 +0100
            Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-11-21 15:10 +0100
              Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-21 16:50 +0100
              Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-11-21 16:50 +0100
                Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-11-21 20:50 +0100
              Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-11-21 16:50 +0100

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