Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753077AbcKSSpb (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:45:31 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f67.google.com ([209.85.218.67]:34368 "EHLO mail-oi0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752652AbcKSSp2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:45:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1479578112.4382.15.camel@infradead.org> References: <20161107075524.49d83697@vento.lan> <11020459.EheIgy38UF@wuerfel> <20161116182633.74559ffd@vento.lan> <2923918.nyphv1Ma7d@wuerfel> <20161119101543.12b89563@lwn.net> <1479578112.4382.15.camel@infradead.org> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:45:26 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: -0IH-Fzteem_tXkMwjOujq_ATmI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents To: David Woodhouse Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Media Mailing List , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, "open list:DOCUMENTATION" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 21 On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:55 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > I know it's unfashionable these days, but TeX always used to be bloody > good at that kind of thing. You must have used a different TeX than I did. TeX is a horrible example. The moment you needed to insert anything that TeX didn't know about, you were screwed. I think my go-to for TeX was LaTeX, the "epsfig" thing, and then xfig and eps files (using fig2dev). Christ, I get flashbacks just thinking about it. I thought one of the points of Sphinx was to not have to play those games. I think that graphviz and svg are the reasonable modern formats. Let's try to avoid bitmaps in today's world, except perhaps as intermediate generated things for what we can't avoid. Linus