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Re: [boost-docs] [Quickbook] General image handling

by John Maddock :: Rate this Message:

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Matias Capeletto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been reading about how docbook works with images, and it has a
> very neat framework to deal with them, including scaling, align,
> format, etc.
>
> IMO Quickbook must start to support this options.
> I propose the following notation:
>
> [$image_path
>     [format ...]
>     [width ...]
>     [srccredit ...]
>     [contentdepth ...]
>     [contentwidth ...]
>     [scalefit ...]
>     [align ...]
>     [valign ...]
>     [depth ...]
>     [scale ...]
> ]
>
> All extra parameters are optional, and we use common sense default
> when they are not included. For example, if the format is omitted we
> use the extension of the image_path.

All excellent ideas, I wonder can we support multiple formats as well, lets
say if I write:

[$myfile]

with no extension on the filename, then quickbook checks for .png .svg etc
and wraps each found in the an appropriate media object?

John.


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