Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>>>> Perhaps we should allow any SVG file to be imported, but only allow
>>>> modifications by a single SVG editor.
>
>>> How is that sensible?  The first change to the file will result in
>>> exactly the mass of cosmetic diffs that we wish to avoid.
>
>> I suggested this so we could get images into the docs and then only have
>> a single diff change once the file is modified.  If we don't do that
>> then all image additions have to be done by someone with the proper
>> editor.
>
> Or at least, somebody passes it through the "proper editor" before
> committing.  As long as said editor can read SVG output from a
> reasonable range of other tools, this doesn't seem that onerous.

Bad news, Bruce: you're going to have to learn a new tool.  :-)

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