PMX / M-Tx / MusixTex support delayed
With the upcoming version (0.2), it should be possible to set image width so that the image may not overflow blog content area width, thus content layout would not be ‘broken’. However, since TeX does not provide any control for arbitrary page width, any TeX-using music rendering applications (the most prominent one being PMX, M-Tx and MusixTex) inherits such problem, and images rendered by them can’t perform any control on image width. So I’m temporarily postponing the support until 0.3.x.
Right now I can think of several solutions, of which none is perfect:
- Resize image: the simplest and most obvious method. But won’t work if people change theme frequently — after each theme change images have to be regenerated or images might overflow again. Not to mention tall images may not be very visible again after resizing.
- Clipped to fit width: again, what happens after each theme change?
- Installing extra TeX package: I’m told that Vmargin TeX package allows arbitrary page size. I’m also told that package is exotic and not included in most TeX systems by default; but it looks like Vmargin is more widespread than I’ve thought. At least on Linux — Vmargin belongs to default LaTeX package for RPM-based distributions, and belongs to some LaTeX extra package for Debian-based ones. I’ll give it some more thinking later.
- Use CSS overflow property: looks like the best solution so far, but still has its own problem, namely old browser compatibility. Though I wouldn’t care too much about browsers without proper CSS support…
Please leave message here if anybody has good solution!