Re: [BUG] Edge case for preview image alignment

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com> writes:

> Currently the value of `org-image-align' or of the `:align' attr_*
> keyword is respected when previewing images in the following two
> situations:
>
> 1. Image link in its own paragraph:
>
> #+attr_org: :align center
> [[file:/path/to/image.png]]
>
> 2. Image link at the end of a paragraph, on its own line:
>
> Some text in a paragraph
> #+attr_org: :align center
> [[file:/path/to/image.png]]

These two situations are the same - standalone image in a paragraph.
The second example is _two_ paragraphs. (affiliated keywords force-start
a new paragraph)

> OR
>
> Some text in a paragraph
> [[file:/path/to/image.png]]

This will be ignored.

> But it is ignored when the 
>
> 3. image link is on its own line "inside" a paragraph:
>
> Some text in a paragraph
> #+attr_org: :align center
> [[file:/path/to/image.png]]
> followed by more text in the paragraph.

This is the same as just

#+attr_org: :align center
[[file:/path/to/image.png]]
followed by more text in the paragraph.

> In contrast, the value of `org-image-max-width',
> `org-image-actual-width' (and the attr_* :width attribute) are respected
> in all three cases.

Sure. Because it works for both inline and standalone images, unlike
org-image-align:

    org-image-align is a customizable variable defined in ol.el.
    ...
    Documentation
    How to align images previewed using org-link-preview-region.
    
    Only stand-alone image links are affected by this setting.  These
    are links without surrounding text.

> Should we support image alignment in case 3?
>
> The only situation in which I can see this being undesirable is when you
> have hard-wrapped/filled lines and the image link coincidentally ends up
> on its own line.  In this case it doesn't make sense for the image
> preview to respect `org-image-align'.  There might be other syntactical
> reasons why supporting case 3 doesn't make sense, so I am asking here.

Maybe. Or not.

Alignment is intersecting its syntax with export.
But export will only align truly standalone images.
There will be no notion of "image in a line of its own in the middle of
paragraph"

Also, what would you do if there are multiple images like that or when
the purpose of :align attribute is to align the whole paragraph?

Consider something like

# Align the whole paragraph
#+attr_html: :align center
Paragraph with inlined
[[file:image.png]]
image and
[[file:image2.png]]
another one.

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