Re: Broadcasting diagrams

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> 2011/12/30 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> 
>>> I made some diagrams for the broadcasting section in the new chapter:
>>> 
>>>    http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/piccies/bcast-ApTimesB.png
>>>    http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/piccies/bcast-xpy.png
>>>    http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/piccies/bcast-ymyp.png
>>> 
>>> Corresponding Dia source:
>>> 
>>>    http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/piccies/bcast-ApTimesB.dia
>>>    http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/piccies/bcast-xpy.dia
>>>    http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/piccies/bcast-ymyp.dia
>>> 
>>> I can't figure out how to stick them into the manual, though. I also
>>> plan on making some corresponding ASCII drawing for the .txt pictures
>>> that TeXinfo can use. Can someone help me figure out how to integrate
>>> these with the documentation build system? Should the "generated"
>>> .png, .eps, and .pdf drawings go into Mercurial? I suppose they should
>>> be part of the build system, but I don't know if it's ok to add dia as
>>> a build-dep to Octave. That seems a little heavy-handed. Dia can be
>>> run in batch mode, e.g. the command
>>> 
>>>    dia bcast-ymyp.dia --export bcast-ymyp.jpg
>>> 
>>> converts the dia diagram to jpg.
>>> 
>>> TIA,
>>> - Jordi G. H.
>> 
>> I notice we already have some images in mercurial.
>> 
>>        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/4b07db9dd976/doc/icons
>> 
>> Why the hesitation to just add eps-files ?
> 
> Weeellll, it really shouldn't be done, just like we don't check in
> configure scripts into hg.
> 
> But that's not the heart of my problem. I can't figure out how to make
> texinfo include my images correctly. That's what I'm really asking
> help for.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.


Forgive me for pealing the layers of the onion, but ... the logo images are in 
mercurial and the logo is included in octave.texi.

Ben