Re: [O] [ODT] image scaling overridden by long caption

[Jambunathan K]

Hello Andreas

I have added support for character anchored images as part of the
following commit release_7.8.03-201-g1d99fd7.

I am attaching a sample Org file and the associated ODT output.

Nicolas/Eric
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#+TITLE:     side-by-side.org
#+AUTHOR:    Jambunathan K
#+EMAIL:     address@hidden
#+DATE:      2012-01-23 Mon
#+DESCRIPTION:
#+KEYWORDS:
#+LANGUAGE:  en
#+OPTIONS:   H:3 num:t toc:nil \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:dvipng skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc

#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:   
#+LINK_HOME: 
#+XSLT:

Nicolas, 

Does the existing behaviour as captured in [[Side-by-Side images laid
out by hand]] be preserved with new export driver?

Eric, 

1. can the extraneous parbreaks in [[Side-by-Side images using Babel]] be
   removed?
2. Can 
[[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-01/msg00678.html][this 
issue with #+header lines ]] be fixed?

* Side-by-Side images using Babel

Creating side-by-side images with Babel is problematic.

#+caption: foo
#+ATTR_ODT: :width 7 :height 7 :anchor as-char
#+header: :file foo.png
#+begin_src R :exports results :results graphics
  plot(1:100, 1:100)
#+end_src
#+caption: foo
#+ATTR_ODT: :width 7 :height 7 :anchor as-char
#+header: :file foo.png
#+begin_src R :exports results :results graphics
  plot(1:100, 1:100)
#+end_src

The images are vertically stacked because Babel introduces extraneous
parbreaks. This forces the images to be anchored as character, but to
*successive* paragraphs.

Here is a segment of Org buffer as seen by the ODT exporter at the end
of =org-export-preprocess-string=.

#+BEGIN_SRC org
  ,Creating side-by-side images with Babel is problematic.
  
  
  
  ,[[file:foo.png][file:foo.png]]
  
  
  
  ,[[file:foo.png][file:foo.png]]
  
  ,The images are vertically stacked because Babel introduces extraneous
  ,parbreaks. This forces the images to be anchored as character, but to
  ,*successive* paragraphs.
  
#+END_SRC

* Side-by-Side images laid out by hand

To create side-by-side images flank them with paragraph boundaries.

#+BEGIN_CENTER
#+caption: foo
#+ATTR_ODT: :width 7 :height 7 :anchor as-char
#+header: :file foo.png
[[./foo.png]]
#+caption: bar
#+ATTR_ODT: :width 7 :height 7 :anchor as-char
#+header: :file bar.png
[[./bar.png]]
#+END_CENTER

You should be seeing side-by-side images.
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side-by-side.odt
Description: side-by-side.odt

>>> On a related note:  Could I place two (correctly scaled) images
>>> side-by-side?
>>
>> For the sake of record, your request is much similar to what is
>> discussed here
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-12/msg00780.html -
>> save for (dynamically-generated) images taking the place of src blocks.
>>
>> Try something like this:
>>
>> #+begin_list-table
>> - [[./foo1.png]]
>>   - [[./foo2.png]]
>> #+end_list-table
>>
>> Make sure that the images are "small" images. If you replace the image
>> links above with R srcblocks or attach caption/attr_odt to the above
>> above images, the results are less than satisfactory. So the answer to
>> your question is a "soft" no.
>
> Thanks for this.  For two reasons that does not work for me:
> (1) I want to use captions on my images
> (2) it is odt-export specific
>
>>
>> Notes to self:
>>
>> There are multiple ways to achieve side-by-side effect.
>> - use tables (aka "list tables")
>> - use 2-Column sections 
>> - 2-column frames (what is this?)
>>
>> "side-by-side" has surfaced in the list for the second time, I think it
>> deserves to be supported "out of the box".
>
> +1.  And ideally generic enough, s.t. also the LaTeX supports it.
> Beamer has the concept of columns, which is nicely supported in org
> mode.  Maybe that could be a general concept supported by all (or, most)
> exporters?

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