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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael Martinez <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:08:24 +0300
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On fre, 2010-07-09 at 22:29 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think the first step is defining the source format.  The proposed
> patch uses the dia XML source format, but this is said to have some
> drawbacks (namely: the source is too verbose, the generated png is too
> bloated, and only one tool to handle it).

The same is true of the DocBook toolchain, isn't it?

> SVG was also proposed as an alternative, but there wasn't much
> discussion about it.

SVG isn't a practical source format, in the same way that HTML isn't a
practical source format.

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