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.
Kind regards, Jürgen