Re: [RFR] templates://tgif/{tgif.templates}
Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail.
I've only got suggestions for the control file, which changes most
of it but still needs more work; I'll just attach my draft version
rather than a proposed patch.
> +_Description: Paper size to be used:
> + Select the size of paper to be used by Tgif. This
> selection will be appended to the global Tgif initialization file.
[...]
> +_Description: Units to use for the grid:
> + Select the units to be used by Tgif when rendering the grid. This will also
> + determine the scaling when the snap-to-grid option is enabled.
This all looks fair enough. Maybe you could say "Please select",
but if it was really being polite and considerate you'd think it
would just consult LC_PAPER and LC_MEASUREMENT for its defaults and
not bother the user with questions...
> --- ../tgif.old/debian/control 2011-01-01 04:13:50.000000000 +0000
> +++ debian/control 2011-01-01 22:32:37.000000000 +0000
> @@ -12,6 +12,6 @@
> python-uniconvertor
> Recommends: xfonts-75dpi
> Architecture: any
> -Description: interactive 2-D drawing facility under X11
> +Description: interactive 2-D drawing tool for X11
Dictionaries generally prefer "2D". A non-interactive graphical
drawing application would be a bizarre thing to create; it seems to
me that the more important fact to mention is that it does vector
graphics:
Description: 2D vector graphic drawing tool using Xlib
(The "using Xlib" is intended as a hint at its age, but maybe it's
too obscure?)
> Tgif has little to do with GIF files. It is a 2-D vector based drawing
> program which can produce output suitable for LaTeX or in PostScript.
>
> "facility" doesn't seem a very good word; it's really a tool that provides
> a facility.
I suspect it's an echo of the fact that long, long ago, TGIF stood
for the "Tangram Graphic Interface Facility" -
"http://www.land.ufrj.br/tools/tangram2/manual/Tangram-II_manual.html";.
Mentioning this would at least make it redundant to mention that
TGIF has nothing to do with GIF.
"Vector based" strikes me as a Useless Use Of "Based".
Given that the output format "suitable for LaTeX" is in fact .eps,
surely this should be something like "can produce PostScript output
suitable for LaTeX"?
Tgif (originally the "Tangram Graphic Interface Facility") is a classic
drawing program for 2D vector graphics which can produce PostScript
output suitable for LaTeX.
("Classic" again is a euphemism for "antique".)
> The long description could really do with being a bit longer; it doesn't
> specify why I should want it or what it can do that other programs can't.
> However, the homepage doesn't contain any more detail - even the getting
> started guide has almost as short a description. Carlo, do you have any
> suggestions?
Wikipedia makes some usefully complementary points at
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tgif_(program)", though its claim that
Tgif is unusual in using a grid makes no sense to me.
Is it worth mentioning the use of Prolog?
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
Source: tgif
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Carlo Segre <segre@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), xutils-dev, libxt-dev, libxext-dev, gettext,
libz-dev, libxmu-dev
Standards-Version: 3.9.1
Homepage: http://bourbon.usc.edu/tgif/
Package: tgif
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, gettext, ${shlibs:Depends}, netpbm, ghostscript,
python-uniconvertor
Recommends: xfonts-75dpi
Architecture: any
Description: 2D vector graphic drawing tool using Xlib
Tgif (originally the "Tangram Graphic Interface Facility") is a classic
drawing program for 2D vector graphics which can produce PostScript
output suitable for LaTeX.
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