Re: Figures in docs

> Hi.
>
> In DocBook 4.2 sgml dtd, figure tag is supported already.
> that was implemented for multi output format.

Ok, there's no technical problems with figures then. MySQL docs has
some nice figures. I am jealous.

> I remember that very old postgresql document has some picture (eg.
> system architecture, ERD ...).

So it seems to be a matter of policy? At some point we prefer not to
include figures, maybe.

> when release new version, these might be changed, nevertheless these can
> not been.
>
> this proposer is not about xml or sgml.
> how can new figures be modified for new documents.

Keep the source files (LibreOffice Draw for example).

> regards ioseph.
>
> 2016-02-17 (수), 08:26 +0300, Oleg Bartunov:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> wrote:
>> It seems there's no figures/diagrams in our docs. I vaguely
>> recall that
>> we used to have a few diagrams in our docs. If so, was there
>> any
>> technical reason to remove them?
>>
>> I don't know the reason, but it's shame, we are still in sgml !
>>
>> We already do our translations (as others) in xml using custom
>> scripting. xml provides us better integration with available tools
>> and ability to insert graphics. Last time we asked in -docs about
>> moving to xml and Alexander demonstrated acceptable speed of xml
>> build, but there were no reply from Peter, who is (?) responsible for
>> our documentation infrastructure. Probably, we should just created a
>> patch and submit to commitfest. You can check this thread
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1428009501118.85114@postgrespro.ru
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Tatsuo Ishii
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