Note that this discussion has already taken place 
at https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/261 (over the course of a couple of 
years). Adding millimeter as a synonym for 0.1 centimeter was easy, but if 
you want to use vw and vh, just write ![](image.png){ style=50vw } or maybe 
better ![](image.png){ width=50% } which, depending on your CSS, has mostly 
the same effect. Finally, I'd rather stick to those units most people 
understand, If you really need an image that's 1 point wide (really?), you 
can still write 0.01389 inch.


On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 11:56:49 PM UTC+2, BP Jonsson wrote:
>
> Den 2015-07-27 23:28, Tim St. Clair skrev: 
> > then if that's the case, what about vw and vh? These are formats used by 
> > html that are a width and height relative to the browser viewport. I've 
> > used them. I think once you set an arbitrary restriction in place, an 
> > exception for it immediately comes up. 
>
> Probably a case can be made for supporting, at least as in passing 
> through, all units which CSS and LaTeX support. 
>
> CSS: em, ex, ch, rem, vw, vh, vmin, vmax, %, cm, mm, in, px, pt, pc 
>
> LaTeX: pt, mm, cm, in, ex, em, bp, pc, dd, cc, sp 
>
> Note: a CSS "pt" is the same thing as a LaTeX "bp". Perhaps the 
> HTML reader could replace "pt" with "bp" and the HTML writer 
> replace "bp" with "pt"? 
>
> The alphabetical list of all the unique abbreviations (thus 
> ignoring the ambiguity of "pt") is: 
>
> % 
> bp 
> cc 
> ch 
> cm 
> dd 
> em 
> ex 
> in 
> mm 
> pc 
> pt 
> px 
> rem 
> sp 
> vh 
> vmax 
> vmin 
> vw 
>
> /bpj 
>
> > 
> > On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 06:04:05 UTC+10, mb21 wrote: 
> >> 
> >> @BP Josson, added millimeters on my branch as well now: 
> >> https://github.com/mb21/pandoc/tree/new-image-attributes (although I 
> >> personally prefer writing 6cm to 60mm ;) 
> >> 
> >> On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 8:31:48 PM UTC+2, BP Jonsson wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> Den 2015-07-26 20:22, mb21 skrev: 
> >>>> Okay, I rebased from master and implemented the link attributes: 
> >>>> https://github.com/mb21/pandoc/tree/new-image-attributes 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Still not quite sure where we're going with this... I don't think we 
> >>> need 
> >>>> Attr on every element (it's not worth the effort just for 
> consistency), 
> >>> but 
> >>>> at least on Table and Math, so we can reference tables and equations 
> in 
> >>>> documents? 
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> The readme on that branch says: 
> >>> 
> >>>> The `width` and `height` attributes on images are treated specially. 
> >>> When 
> >>>> used without a unit, the unit is assumed to be pixels. However, any 
> of 
> >>>> the following unit identifiers can be used: `px`, `cm`, `in`, `inch` 
> >>> and 
> >>>> `%`. There must not be any spaces between the number and the unit. 
> >>> 
> >>> Why not `mm` as well?  After all millimeters is the 'proper' unit 
> >>> to use for such things in the metric world. 
> >>> 
> >>> /bpj 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> > 
>
>

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