ivoatex architecture diagram: fix box widths

[Molinaro, Marco]

Hi Markus, all,

I tried the new archdiag and the recipe for new boxes.
It works backwards with existing role_diagram.xml(s)
as well as with the new "w-additioned" ones.

(I added my comments in the PR on github)

Cheers
    Marco

Il giorno lun 8 mar 2021 alle ore 15:59 Markus Demleitner <
msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de> ha scritto:

> Dear Std+Proc,
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 01:28:30PM +0100, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> > This message is about the architecture diagram, which, with the
> > increasing number of standards, is becoming rather crowded.  A simple
> > countermeasure would be to abandon the fixed width of the boxes --
> > this will give the diagram a somewhat less regular appearance, but it
> > will loosen things up a lot.
>
> So, I've now superseded the with-javascript proposal with
> https://github.com/ivoa-std/ivoatex/pull/42, which adds manually
> defined widths to the box definitions.  This indeed loosens up the
> map a lot, which so far I've only used to make the "Getting" string
> from l1 visible again: http://docs.g-vo.org/archdiag-l2.svg.
>
> Once we stop centering the boxes (e.g., in the DAL region), we can
> recover enough space for another couple of decades of creating
> standards.
>
> So... could folks review the PR?  Getting any sort of feedback would
> be most welcome given the extent of the change.
>
> You might also try if the recipe for adding boxes in
> archdiag-full.xml works for you; also, I believe the XSLT should be
> backwards-compatible, such that existing role_diagram.svg should just
> continue to work.  But if I'm wrong there, it'd be great if you
> caught me before we merge this (if we merge it).
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Markus
>


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Marco Molinaro
INAF - Istituto Nazionale di AstroFisica
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
email marco.molinaro at inaf.it
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