Re: Scaling of image produced for math in Info in the Emacs Info reader, Re: Scaling of image produced for math in Info in the Emacs Info reader

[James Thomas]

Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> In the development version of GNU Texinfo, we have added a new
> functionality, a conversion of math commands to images.  This was a
> request from Rahguzar for the Emacs Info reader:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2024-08/msg00001.html
>
> It was implemented recently in texi2any/makeinfo:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2024-12/msg00061.html
>
> However, the images are not scaled correctly, they should be scaled
> according to the user font size in Emacs.  We discussed about this
> issue, and came to the conclusion that with the image generated from
> math commands in Info file there should be some information on the image
> size and that the Emacs Info viewer should be modified to take advantage
> of this information to rescale the images.

Are you aware of 'image-scaling-factor'?

Ihor Radchenko writes:

> AFAIK, Karthik (CCed) have been working on generalizing the preview
> system to work in arbitrary major modes (not just Org mode). Maybe it
> can be reused for Info reader.

IMO the above would be useful alternative, and/as some may not need
this.

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