From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6013F71F for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f65.google.com (mail-oi0-f65.google.com [209.85.218.65]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C5B5E15C for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f65.google.com with SMTP id 128so16265900oih.3 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:45:27 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linus971@gmail.com 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 Message-ID: To: David Woodhouse Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Linux Media Mailing List , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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