Hi Chris, On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Chris Travers wrote:
> Just a couple of points: > > I don't think you can do any real validadation of TeX. Agreed. Certain tex documents may be 'fragile', but still work. By fragile, I mean that a misplaced CR (or other characters) may kill the pdf build. > That might be > possible in other areas, but since TeX will almost certainly act as > the high-end template system, we have to acknowledge that some level > of validation is going to break down at some point. Ultimately, this also gives end users the flexibility to change what they want. It is certainly possible to make a 'tex generator' for simple structures so that users could use that to flesh out a starting point for a new design. However, most folks are just happy enough with small tweaks to existing files (in my experience with Open Admin tex templates). > We can load all the default templates into the db. It would be > trivial to do that. Yes, but also not much use, IMO. It's about the same thing as storing images as BLOB fields in a database as opposed to just dropping the images into a directory as a jpg file and linking to it. This would also not be a 'good thing' for performance if there are already conerns over lsmb performance and the use of mod_perl. As well, In a web environment, the field data would have to be pulled out, saved as a file and then linked to in any case. Same thing for TeX. Ugly. >> Another thing could be ancilliary files - eg, for my consulting biz I have a >> pdf file that I use as a watermark on my invoices, and our retail biz uses >> png and eps files that we have our logo in - would those then be stored in >> the db somehow, or will we always end up with some "stragglers" out on the >> filesystem? > Good question. I don't know if that has been looked at. See? Peer > review is good... Another reason to stick with files. Uniformity. Les Richardson Open Admin for Schools ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
