Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:36:31 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: First SVG graphic
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 06:04:06PM +0100, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> I take the reactions of the last days as a strong consent to go on with the
> effort to integrate graphics into the documentation and use SVG as the language
> which creates such graphics. Also the proposed parallel handling of two SVG
> files - a rich but tool-specific version (optional and not normative) and a
> poor tool-independent version (mandatory and normative) - for the same graphic
> seems to be accepted. The community agrees that this way is not optimal because
> the use of different SVG-tools will lead to unnecessary problems - but there is
> no consensus about tools.
> 
> What shall we do next:
> 
>   • I will create one or more wiki pages where the procedure is described.
>     Everybody can extend this pages or contribute to their discussion sites.
>     The pages will be found in the category 'Documentation' and its subcategory
>     'SVG' (to be created).
>   • Actually, we have the very simple example 'PageLayout.svg' and an example
>     of medium complexity 'gin.svg'. For testing purposes we shall have a third
>     one of high complexity and with many different graphical elements. Can
>     someone send such an example - as a screenshot or in any other format?
>   • I want to engage everybody to identify important issues of PG and visualize
>     them (similar to Oleg's proposal). We will have a - possibly long lasting -
>     period of experiments with different examples. I think, it's necessary that
>     we make our experiences with different tools and proceedings (one person
>     creates a graphic, another one contributes changes, using the same or a
>     different tool, ...). Those examples shall not be pure academic use cases.
>     They shall reflect real situations with the expectation to be included into
>     the documentation - one day or another.
>   • In the initial phase, it may be helpful to do some centralized clearings on
>     the first SVG source files. 'Copy&Paste' is widely used and the first
>     examples will have the meaning of a lighthouse.
>   • I will contact our web-team to discuss style-guide related issues.

Sounds good.  I have many xfig/SVG images in my presentations if you
want to use any of them:

	https://momjian.us/presentations

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