Re: Emacs object type hierarchy

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com
>> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 05:21:26 -0400
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:20:51 -0400
>> >> 
>> >> any comment on where would be more appropriate to document our type
>> >> hierarchy in the manual?
>> >
>> > Somewhere under "Lisp Data Types", I guess?
>> >
>> >> I'd like to give it a go on writing some documentation 😮😬 (I'll
>> >> probably need some support).
>> >
>> > Help in writing documentation is always available, don't worry about
>> > that.
>> 
>> Thanks 🙏, dumb question: do we have a way to include images into the
>> manual?
>
> Texinfo supports inline images, yes.  You can read about that in the
> Texinfo manual.
>
>> Alternatively WDYT is the best way to include a graph similar to the one
>> linked in my original message?  I tried a couple of ways in order to
>> render it to ascii but I'm not satisfied with the result so far.
>
> ASCII art will be needed anyway, as it is the fallback for non-GUI
> terminals.  But you can include images for those terminals that
> support it.  See, for example, the Gawk manual, in the "Extension
> Mechanism Outline" node.

Wonderful thanks for the info

  Andrea