Re: Broadcasting diagrams

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 31, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> 2011/12/30 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> 
>>> 2011/12/30 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>>> 
>>>> Why the hesitation to just add eps-files ?
>>> 
>>> Weeellll, it really shouldn't be done, just like we don't check in
>>> configure scripts into hg.
>>> 
>>> But that's not the heart of my problem. I can't figure out how to make
>>> texinfo include my images correctly. That's what I'm really asking
>>> help for.
>> 
>> Forgive me for pealing the layers of the onion, but ... the logo
>> images are in mercurial and the logo is included in octave.texi.
> 
> Ben, I don't understand what you're getting at.
> 
> Do you know the right incantations to make TeXinfo include my images
> correctly for all output formats, including whatever make(1) commands
> are necessary? It's mostly the latter infrastructure I'm asking about.
> 
> The question whether to add dia as a build-dep or not is separate. We
> can ponder that after I manage to get the images working correctly by
> whatever means possible.
> 
> - Jordi g. H.


Ok. My apologies for being dense. I was focused on the texinfo / latex / etc 
part and not the "make" part.

I assume you'd like to add the dia and eps files (to avoid requiring dia as a 
dependency) to the sources and then convert to png and pdf using ghostscript ?

Writing a m-file that does that for you (broadcastimages.m ?) and accepts the 
same inputs as the other m-files (like geometeryimages.m), looks like an 
acceptable hack. You could just as well include code for producing the eps 
files from the dia files if they are needed. We'd just need to be careful to 
(1) change the dia file, (2) make, (3) commit the changes to both the dia and 
eps files.

Then (if I understand the process correctly), all that is needed is to add the 
necessary parts to Makefile.in. For ./doc/interpreter/Makefile.in, look in the 
vicinity of lines 1624-1666 & 2629-2848.

Ben