Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode

[joakim]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:52:59 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
>>> Of course.  I was thinking of a dynamically produced glyph that scales
>>> down to the text size.  I think SVG can do something like that, scaling
>>> gracefully.  If you want a bigger image, you increase the font size!
>
> SM> Scaling is good, but it's difficult to know which size to use.
> SM> Worse, the same image might need to be displayed at different sizes in
> SM> different windows, since the same text may be rendered with different
> SM> font size in different windows.
>
> SM> IOW, I think this requires support on the C side, e.g. to specify the
> SM> image height as a multiple of the line height or as a multiple of the
> SM> "current font"'s height.
>
> My description was entirely from the developer's side of how it should
> behave to make working with images easier.  Unfortunately I have no idea
> where to even start to implement this...

There is some support for zoom factor etc in the imagemagick interface
code. it could perhaps be modified.

>
> Ted
>
>

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Joakim Verona