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Woops. I missed most of this thread in my last reply.

I'm all for using open standard formats and versioning them. However. Not
being a graphical artist myself, I have found the learning curve on some of
those tools daunting, eg. inkscape, which means I'm far less likely to
update a graphic in a format that requires me to go learn that tool first.
Also, it's awkward to require a Python developer to update an SVG because
that is "documentation" affected by their commit.

If we go with a common tool/format like libre office/ODF. I suggest we
adopt some commonalities, and still keep things simple enough that we can
reasonably expect any developer to update it.

-D
On May 12, 2015 12:33 PM, "Sean Dague" <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On 05/12/2015 01:12 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > On 2015-05-12 10:04:11 -0700 (-0700), Clint Byrum wrote:
> >> It's a nice up side. However, as others have pointed out, it's only
> >> capable of displaying the most basic pieces of the architecture.
> >>
> >> For higher level views with more components, I don't think ASCII art
> >> can provide enough bandwidth to help as much as a vector diagram.
> >
> > Of course, simply a reminder that just because you have one or two
> > complex diagram callouts in a document doesn't mean it's necessary
> > to also go back and replace your simpler ASCII art diagrams with
> > unintelligible (without rendering) SVG or Postscript or whatever.
> > Doing so pointlessly alienates at least some fraction of readers.
>
> Sure, it's all about trade offs.
>
> But I believe that statement implicitly assumes that ascii art diagrams
> do not alienate some fraction of readers. And I think that's a bad
> assumption.
>
> If we all feel alienated every time anyone does anything that's not
> exactly the way we would have done it, it's time to give up and pack it
> in. :) This thread specifically mentioned source based image formats
> that were internationally adopted open standards (w3c SVG, ISO ODG) that
> have free software editors that exist in Windows, Mac, and Linux
> (Inkscape and Open/LibreOffice).
>
>         -Sean
>
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