[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8202] Install images into infodir.

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #9, patch #8202 (project octave):

There are only ascii equivalents for very few images.  Most images are
replaced by "Image unavailable in text mode.".  fig:spmatrix is an exception
because sparseimages.m contains a special case for it (printsparse).  My
-ddumb print patch could help here.  But that should be discussed in my other
patch submission.

It seems that many packages (including octave until this patch or something
similar is accepted) still treat texinfo as a format which can't handle
images.  However this is a wrong assumption.  It might have been true in the
past and it is still true for info(1).  But at least Emacs is quite capable of
displaying images in info files.  I don't see why we should squander those
capabilities.  And Emacs doesn't seem to be an uncommon way to use octave (and
thus read the documentation).

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