On 11.03.19 12:13, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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. The problem is that it is a *vector* format, but not a *graph* or *chart* format. You can draw boxes and lines and text, but nothing in the format indicates how they are connected.
Yes, SVG knows nothing about higher level concepts. That's one of the reasons why there are tools to create SVG, eg. Inkscape with the connectors feature (it was not used in the examples but obviously it's possible.)
I looked at some alternatives. I rebuilt the GIN image using Graphviz and the page layout image using Ditaa.
That was the heart of the proposal: Since we couldn't find consensus about a single tool in the long lasting discussion, everybody shall use his favourite tool and deliver the original source plus a SVG version.
Kind regards, Jürgen Purtz
