> > > You had pointed me to this plugin before > > > https://pythonhosted.org/sphinxcontrib-aafig/ > > > > > > but I don't think it can actually represent any of the pictures. > > > > No, but there are some ascii art images inside some txt/rst files > > and inside some kernel-doc comments. We could either use the above > > extension for them or to convert into some image. The ascii art > > images I saw seem to be diagrams, so Graphviz would allow replacing > > most of them, if not all. > > Please don't replace ASCII art that effectively conveys conceptual > diagrams. If you do, we'll wind up in situations where someone > hasn't built the docs and doesn't possess the tools to see a diagram > that was previously shown by every text editor (or can't be bothered > to dig out the now separate file). In the name of creating > "prettier" diagrams (and final doc), we'll have damaged capacity to > understand stuff by just reading the source if this diagram is in > kernel doc comments. I think this is a good application of "if it > ain't broke, don't fix it". Right, I agree completely! That's the selling point of aafig though, it translates to pretty diagrams, but looks fine when viewed in a normal text editor (with fixed-width font) I had a hack elsewhere that would embed the fixed-width text if the plugin isn't present, which seemed like a decent compromise, but nobody is willing to let plugins be used in general to start with, it seems :) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
