Re: make new links show as figures?

[Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com>]

On 2013-10-24 06:08, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On 24.10.2013, at 09:28, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rick and John,
> 
> rick@rickster.com writes:
> 
> On 2013-10-22 21:53, John Kitchin wrote:
> Is it possible to define new links that would be rendered as inline
> images?
> 
> I am imagining something like
> 
> chemdraw:benzene.png
> 
> which would show the benzene.png file inline, but when I click on it
> would open a chemdraw file for editing.
> 
> unfortunately, it seems that `org-display-inline-images' has a
> hardcoded regex which searches only for =file:= links.
> 
> This may be related to a question I had a couple weeks ago (see
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/77567). The current logic
> seems to be to display inline images when the link points to an image,
> it would be great to extend it when the description, or part of the
> link, points to an image.
> 
> Indeed, currently this is not possible.  I would be interested to get
> a patch to this effect.

Carsten-

In terms of inlining images in the description portion per the linked
posting, do you think that it should depended on the value if the
=include-linked= argument? (IMHO no, since the default usage of
`org-display-inline-images' doesn't set this argument). I would be
glad to take a stab at this enhancement.

John-
In reviewing `org-display-inline-images', and the handling of org
links in general, i see no safe (and not overly complex) way of making
added link types expand inline images. In the case mentioned, i still
feel that adding chemdraw as a babel language is the correct approach.
However, if we add the expansion of images in the description, would
that work:

[[chemdraw:file.cdxml][file:file.png]]

rick