Re: There should be an option to set the display size of an image to zero

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > If I understand correctly what you are asking for, it would need a
 > radical change in the display layout algorithms.

As he phrased it, yes.  But the use-case he described could be
accomodated fairly simply by blitting the image to the *background*
rather than treating it as a (more or less) giant character in the
foreground.  I think Emacs allows background pixmaps, doesn't it?
What I do (in XEmacs) when translating or inputting from a
photographed page image is to make that image the background pixmap,
then just type right over the text I'm working on.

Of course it wouldn't be particularly robust to scrolling and such.
To get a relatively robust version, you'd just need to be able to
"pin" rectangular objects to the background canvas, which shouldn't be
too hard.  Allowing you to pin those things relative to a particular
marker in text might be quite a bit more complex, though.