From 46b857c375f1ae7511d9c99e454481271de3d0c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arturo Espinosa Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 01:37:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] re-fill paragraphs --- docs/white-paper/gimp-white-paper.tex | 55 +++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/white-paper/gimp-white-paper.tex b/docs/white-paper/gimp-white-paper.tex index 5de98eee38..267a03105a 100644 --- a/docs/white-paper/gimp-white-paper.tex +++ b/docs/white-paper/gimp-white-paper.tex @@ -28,17 +28,16 @@ \part{Introduction} The {\bf G}NU\footnote{Please see \url http://www.gnu.org \endurl for -information -on the \gnu\ Project.} {\bf I}mage {\bf M}anipulation {\bf P}rogram -(\gimp) is a powerful tool for the preparation and manipulation of -digital images. The \gimp\ provides the user with a wide variety of -image manipulation, painting, processing, and rendering tools. The -key to the \gimp's power lies in its flexible core and easily -extensible design. The \gimp's open design and extensible -architecture make for a very powerful end product which can continue -to be extended to meet the needs of the photo compositor, image -retoucher, web graphics designer, or digital illustrator for a very -long time. +information on the \gnu\ Project.} {\bf I}mage {\bf M}anipulation {\bf +P}rogram (\gimp) is a powerful tool for the preparation and +manipulation of digital images. The \gimp\ provides the user with a +wide variety of image manipulation, painting, processing, and +rendering tools. The key to the \gimp's power lies in its flexible +core and easily extensible design. The \gimp's open design and +extensible architecture make for a very powerful end product which can +continue to be extended to meet the needs of the photo compositor, +image retoucher, web graphics designer, or digital illustrator for a +very long time. The \gimp's extensible plug-in architecture allows for image manipulation procedures and other functionality to be easily added @@ -78,11 +77,10 @@ time. Finally, the most impressive feature of the \gimp\ is that it is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (\gpl).\footnote{Please see \url http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html -\endurl for the full text of -the \gpl.} The entire source code is freely available and -distributed. This openness has fostered a very active development -community and large user base, out of which a superior product has -arisen. +\endurl for the full text of the \gpl.} The entire source code is +freely available and distributed. This openness has fostered a very +active development community and large user base, out of which a +superior product has arisen. \part{Core architecture} @@ -116,10 +114,10 @@ image must be compatible with the image type. A {\it drawable} is a planar array of pixel data; however, the contents of a drawable need not necessarily be used solely for -rendering as pixel data. Each drawable contains from one to four -data channels (not to be confused with the channels spoken of -elsewhere in this document), depending on the type of the drawable. -Each data channel is one byte deep. +rendering as pixel data. Each drawable contains from one to four data +channels (not to be confused with the channels spoken of elsewhere in +this document), depending on the type of the drawable. Each data +channel is one byte deep. There are six types of drawables (see table \ref{tab:drawables}). @@ -158,14 +156,14 @@ three cases, a channel consists of a rectangular array of byte values; the interpretation of these values varies depending on the type of channel. -In addition to these channel types, each image also has either -one or three ``virtual'' channels (three for RGB images, one for -grayscale and indexed). This/these are merely the pixel array -resulting from the layer composition process, and is made available to -support the ``sample merged'' functionality in some of the tools. -Also, with RGB images, it is possible to deselect one or more of the -red, green or blue channels; doing so will cause that portion of the -colorspace to be excluded from the composition process. +In addition to these channel types, each image also has either one or +three ``virtual'' channels (three for RGB images, one for grayscale +and indexed). This/these are merely the pixel array resulting from +the layer composition process, and is made available to support the +``sample merged'' functionality in some of the tools. Also, with RGB +images, it is possible to deselect one or more of the red, green or +blue channels; doing so will cause that portion of the colorspace to +be excluded from the composition process. \section{Tiles} @@ -244,6 +242,7 @@ artifacting. The \gimp\ core consists of 215\footnote{In version 0.99.16. This number tends to go up with time.} procedures which operate on images in a great variety of ways. + \FIXME{General overview}