Re: [FR] Add support for racket images in org-babel

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com> writes:

> I have not asked anywhere yet, but I do not know a 'standard org-mode' way
> to make org-mode show the plot images. Racket creates a temp image file and
> returns a string that includes the path to the file. The actual format of
> the string is:
>
> "\"#<Image: /var/tmp/geiser-img-16711484841671148484684.png>\""
>
> I could create a patch for it, but I am not sure how to best implement it
> (in a clean way).

You likely need to extend `org-babel-scheme--table-or-string' to
understand Image: type.

> however, it would be great if support could be added to ob-scheme itself.
> I would be happy to do it, but as mentioned before I don't think I know how
> to do it in the proper way. I would probably just add a condition around the
> 'result' in 'org-babel-execute:scheme' as follows:

I do not know much about scheme.

Generally, ob-* libraries try their best to convert native language
types to Elisp. If #<Image: ...> is something that is unambiguously
identified as image file, I do not see why we cannot support it,
converting the #<Image: ...> representation to file link. Especially,
when users request :results file.

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