Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:52:59 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> Of course.  I was thinking of a dynamically produced glyph that scales
>> down to the text size.  I think SVG can do something like that, scaling
>> gracefully.  If you want a bigger image, you increase the font size!

SM> Scaling is good, but it's difficult to know which size to use.
SM> Worse, the same image might need to be displayed at different sizes in
SM> different windows, since the same text may be rendered with different
SM> font size in different windows.

SM> IOW, I think this requires support on the C side, e.g. to specify the
SM> image height as a multiple of the line height or as a multiple of the
SM> "current font"'s height.

My description was entirely from the developer's side of how it should
behave to make working with images easier.  Unfortunately I have no idea
where to even start to implement this...

Ted