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Re: screenshots in documentation



On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:29:47PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Why make them pictures? Except when using the GTK frontend, they're all
> > plain text. It should thus be possible to rebuild them inside the manual
> > (assuming DocBook has something similar to HTML's <pre> tag), and this
> > will not waste space (one picture isn't much, but if you want, say, 15
> > pictures per architecture per language, then it will end up to be quite
> > a bit in the end...)
> 
> Oops, I should have avoided 'picture' and sticked to 'capture'.
> 
> Yes, I agree that we should avoid bitmapped graphics.
> 
> Does that mean that bochs is no longer a candidate for 
> autobuilding the sceen captures?

I don't know :-)

> Yep, DocBook has "preformatted" options like HTML's <pre> tag.

good :-)

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