A little idea for shr and table

[Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>]

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Hi there,

I've used mm-shr for the last couple of days and I'm happy with it.

I'm just sad to see that there's no images in the tables. But i've got
a little idea that could work.

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.

Using something like (propertize "" 'display '(space . (:width 100))),
we may be able to even draw borderless tables for free.

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". ;-)

-- 
Julien Danjou
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