debiandoc-sgml and figures
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I plan to add a figure/diagram/illustration feature to debiandoc-sgml,
and here (debian-devel and linuxdoc-sgml) seemed to be good places to
ask people's opinions:
What format of illustration should I allow `importing' ?
PostScript would perhaps be the most general (most things can be
converted into PostScript) and is easily included in the PostScript
output, and can be turned into a PNG/GIF/JPEG if desired for HTML, but
there are problems with plain text output - what should I do about
this ? Leave the output as a bitmap file next to the text file ?
A PostScript-to-ascii-art converter would be quite nice :-). (And
don't suggest pbmtoascii &c, because they only get a few pixels per
character. I want _real_ ASCII art, or nothing.)
Alternatively I could settle for only allowing xfig-style diagrams -
perhaps there is a better plain text alternative there - or bitmaps.
Ian.
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