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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-21 04:09:04

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.