Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > I played with this further. My conclusion is that SVG as a source > format is not workable. Aside from the tooling issues that are being > discussed, which might be solvable, I think it's not the right level of > abstraction.
It does seem like using SVG as an intermediate format rather than a source format might be a better idea. > (We can have some discussion about whether we want to commit the > intermediate SVG files and what the directory layout should be etc. I > didn't bother with that in my patch yet.) Ideally, we'd treat them much as we do for bison output files: we'll supply them in tarballs but you'd better have the relevant tools if you want to build docs from a git pull. However, that may be assuming too much about the portability of the tools ... regards, tom lane