[racket-dev] Scribble: feature request - module paths for image

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 10:47:14 EST 2013

Does define-runtime-path work? Should it?

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:42 AM, David Van Horn <dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I have a scribble document that is built from two distinct locations, which
> makes using the Scribble image form nearly impossible since it takes a path
> relative to the build location.  (My work around is symbolic links in the
> file system.)
>
> What would solve my problem is the ability to pass a module-path prefix,
> e.g. (image 'foo/bar/baz "some-image.png").
>
> Does this seem like a sensible thing to add?
>
> (BTW, the collects option doesn't help me because I need to reference module
> locations that are not in the main collection.)
>
> David
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