Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D0F632464 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 11:05:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72143-10 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 14:05:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E31E6322F5 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 11:05:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o64E4pRS003486; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:04:51 -0400 (EDT) To: Bruce Momjian cc: Thom Brown , Peter Eisentraut , Robert Haas , Alvaro Herrera , Rafael Martinez , pgsql-docs , Marc Fournier Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams In-reply-to: <201007041336.o64Da2i19378@momjian.us> References: <201007041336.o64Da2i19378@momjian.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:36:02 -0400" Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:04:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3485.1278252291@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/48 X-Sequence-Number: 5704 Bruce Momjian writes: > Thom Brown wrote: >> It looks like it does support SVG output: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfig >> http://epb.lbl.gov/xfig/printing.html#export >> http://www.xfig.org/art11.html > Yes, I have xfig 3.2 and it has SVG export, though it is labeled as > beta. Why should we care about SVG export? AFAICT, SVG support is not widespread enough or stable enough among web browsers that we'd want to use SVG directly in the finished HTML docs. (But having said that, I recall seeing at least one diagram editor whose native format was SVG. That might be worth a look too.) regards, tom lane