From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 10 5:20:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6882E37B6A9; Wed, 10 May 2000 05:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA18343; Wed, 10 May 2000 22:20:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:20:08 +1000 From: Jonathan Michaels To: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Including images in the documentation Message-ID: <20000510222004.A18297@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Reply-To: jon@welearn.com.au Mail-Followup-To: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000509143555.A1692@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <200005100942.CAA34333@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <200005100942.CAA34333@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:42:51AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:42:51AM -0700, jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > > > >>>> "Nik Clayton" writes > > > vector images. Instead of storing EPS files in the repository we would > > store the dia files, and generate the EPS from them at build time. > > I have two objections to `dia': text deleted for brevity > It would be even better to describe our figures in SGML :). Do you know > of any DTDs being used to describe figures and diagrams? another related point ... how are the disabled people who view these documents going to be able to decipher teh mess that said document will become when viewed through a text only interface ? not every one has tommorrows hardware or can afford the required screen deployment to view teh ever increasing (in complexity and size) freebsd requirements. as an aside ... a freind of mine said to me upon some of teh recent changes to freebsd "if i wanted microsoft size, complexity and reliability i'd use microsoft product". i don't know if i agree with him, yet, but it is getting that way. regards, jonathan -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message