Re: [O] make new links show as figures?

[Rick Frankel]

On 2013-10-24 17:48, John Kitchin wrote:
> I don't think making chemdraw a babel language is the answer here. The
> way I know chemdraw is as a standalone binary executable that is all
> gui. there is no scripting. maybe you could build an xml file by hand,
> but i would never dream of that! maybe I am missing how you would use
> it.

Sorry, not familiar w/ chemdraw and you had originally mentioned that
you wanted clicking the link to open it in emacs.

> [[chemdraw:file.cdxml][file:file.png]]
>
> Is pretty close to what I had in mind. I would define the link click
> function to just strip off the png, and open the file.cdxml for
> example, then you do not need both of those pieces. I suppose this
> means you would have had to export the file as a new png after editing
> it to make a change though.

I realize that. I offered this approach as an alternative, as I
believe I can add the functionality to expand inline images in the
description portion, but i don't see a way to make the link portion
accept "aliases" for the file: protocol without major changes to link
handling.  Even then, it seems a bit like a hack.

> [many use cases omitted]

> Those are what I was thinking about for using other links as images.

Other than having to repeat yourself, wouldn't the
[[custom:file.ext][file:file.png]] syntax allow for most/all of the
use cases mentioned?

rick