Re: A little idea for shr and table

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:

> I heard that Ted had some code to create SVG images on the fly. That
> could be used to just draw a couple of fixed size images to build the
> table (equivalent to the current |, -, +). Since we can't know the size
> of a char, we would know the size of the image we draw here to build the
> table borders.
>
> Then, it'd be possible to build table with the right column width and
> line height to match all embedded images, and therefore draw a cute
> table.

But how do you mix images and text?  I've never seen that done nicely in
Emacs...

We don't know the size of the images before rendering, either, but we
could download them before rendering the tables.  

> Yeah, I could probably give it a try, but I think that if Lars like the
> idea he might want to play with it himself or just say "that won't
> work". ;-)

+----+ I'd love for it to work, but I'm not seeing how this would work...
| ** | Most images are higher than the text, and I don't think Emacs
+----+ allows text to flow around images like this.

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