Re: Why is an image width restricted to being between 0 and 200% of the text area

[Matt Huszagh]

Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:

> It occurred to me that large values would only really appear when occurring 
> in a
> narrower scope, e.g. in a multi-column document an image which is multiple
> columns wide. Say,
> ┌────
> │ #+attr_latex: 3.0\columnwidth
> └────
>
> However, I doubt that when previewing the image in Org one would want the
> preview to be 3x the buffer text area width!

Good point. I could see someone using this as an argument against
interpreting :width 3.0\columnwidth as :width 3.0, but I do see the
value in interpreting :width 0.8\linewidth as :width 0.8, so I don't
know.

> I suppose the exception would be say something like
> ┌────
> │ #+attr_org: :width 300%
> └────
> Though I can’t imagine why you’d want that…
>
> I think you don’t raise an unreasonable point, however I’m tempted to let this
> sit till we hear from someone who actually runs into this as an issue.

Yeah I think that makes sense. Thanks for considering this anyway!

Matt