wml::des::lowsrc(3)

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✨ wml::des::lowsrc ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the EN Tools manual — section 3, wml::des::lowsrc(3) — and it's literally the cutest little include file for making your <img> tags look ✨vintage✨ on purpose. 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

wml::des::lowsrc — makes an image and the LOWSRC attribute for the IMG tag. it's giving "retro dial-up glow-up" and honestly? obsessed. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#use wml::des::lowsrc

<img ...src="image.ANY" <lowsrc "image.ANY"> ...>

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's what happens, no cap: this takes your image.ANY and creates a little sibling file called image.lowsrc.ANY — and that sibling contains only a monochrome bitmap (black/white, like, literally two colours bestie, not a single other hue) of whatever was in the original image. then it prints out the matching string:

lowsrc="image.lowsrc.gif"

main character energy, honestly. it makes the lo-fi version of your pic and hands you the markup to use it. 🌈

heads up fr fr: this include file needs the external program convert from the ImageMagick package. you can find that at http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ — go get it, you'll be lost without it. 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • Ralf S. Engelschall
  • rse@engelschall.com
  • www.engelschall.com

(iconic behaviour from the legend himself, we love to see it ⭐)

🧚 REQUIRES 🧚

  • Internal: P1, P2, P3
  • External: convert (PATH)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • ImageMagick

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 — this one came out of the EN Tools edition of the manual, dated 2020-11-29. go make something monochrome and gorgeous, you've got this. 🍓✨

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