Re: Broadcasting diagrams

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

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.