Re: Broadcasting diagrams

[Ben Abbott]

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 ?

Ben