From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 12 3:52: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6357C37B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6CATgp16913; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:29:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:29:42 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Chern Lee Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASCII Diagram Replacements Message-ID: <20010712112942.U97290@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FfX2iGK5t5ehHnsE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:14:15PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --FfX2iGK5t5ehHnsE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:14:15PM -0700, Chern Lee wrote: > Perhaps we can make Dia our standard for diagrams. =20 I'm trying to avoid mandating any particular image editor if at all possibl= e. I think it is worth trying to mandate a house style though. For example, take a look at=20 http://ora-design.ora.com/illus_dept/!active.html and the various graphics there (for example, under "Server Load Balancing"). It's clear they're all from the same source -- the=20 commonality of the icons, the width of lines, the size of arrowheads, the= =20 fact that lines are shown with rounded corners instead of right angles,=20 the font used for text in the image, the dashed lines to show different=20 domains,=20 I'm not saying that we should slavishly copy the O'Reilly style. However, having a style guide for images that spells out the house style should let people produce 'conforming' images whether they want to use Dia, Kivio, xfig, Sketch, or some other tool. Perhaps we could even have our own library of icons that can be used ("router", "host", "network cloud", "printer", ...) that can be used when putting together illustrations? N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --FfX2iGK5t5ehHnsE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtNfBUACgkQk6gHZCw343VP6QCghvrdo+Tsnhg+DRwdtFkhJlcH MFoAn1wGOomlB+HTuwI2yDqGcuSTPyuj =UUlF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FfX2iGK5t5ehHnsE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message