Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

On 18 July 2010 11:58, Rafael Martinez <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no> wrote:
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> Thom Brown wrote:
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>> Okay, I just edited an existing dia file: pgclient_server.dia.  All I
>> did was change the font size of the text "client application" at the
>> top of the diagram, and changed the properties of a line so the
>> arrowhead was no longer on the end.  I used dia 0.97.1 to edit the
>> file. The result when saving is attached in the diff file.  That's a
>> lot of file changes for what I did.
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>> Thom
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> Indeed.
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> The only explanation I can find to this is that I used dia.0.96.1 to
> generate the file and you have used 0.97.1 to edit it.
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> Almost all changes are to the attributes:
>  <dia:rectangle val=....
>  <dia:point val=....
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> I suspect that these changes have been done because 'something' have
> changed between the two main versions in the way they deal with these
> attributes :(

Has anyone yet come up with a reliable and sensible format we can use?

Thom