Re: [Gramps-devel] Fwd: 5600: Enhance the LaTeX document generator to include graphical reports

[Harald R. <ros...@im...>]

Brian,

sorry if my remark may be misleading;
I'm not so fit to express myself in the English language.

Yes, you can do graphics with LaTeX in several ways,
you can design basic graphics
and you can include graphics from many other origins.

To my mind the _basic concern_ of LaTeX is
to produce an excellent readable document.
Text and its structure is the primal business,
yes, pictures included.

Best regards
Harald




Am 06.03.2012 18:47, schrieb Brian Matherly:
> >As I tried to express, the graphics aren't innately a LaTeX mission.
> >Yet there are three possible solutions especially for the trees.
> >only the first one will serve for the calendar report.
>
> Hey guys, I know nothing about LaTeX. So this comment may not apply at 
> all. But I thought I would throw it out there...
>
> I always thought it would be possible to use the SVG document 
> generator embedded inside a text generator to implement the graphical 
> reports. For example, every time a report calls a graphical function, 
> the document generator would instantiate a SVG generator internally 
> and pass the commands to it. When it receives a end_page() call, it 
> would generate the SVG file for that page. The SVG file can be 
> converted to any format that can be embedded in the document.
>
> I thought of this some time ago to support graphical reports for RTF 
> documents. Again, I have no idea if this applies to LaTeX. But I 
> thought I would throw it out.
>
> ~BM