https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65945

--- Comment #16 from C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> ---
Ningauble: I've followed up on the wikiquote village pump with some more
questions about wikiquote's use cases.

Mar(c): Fixing 'upright' is the second part of this same RfC, so I don't
recomment using 'upright=1' as a workaround.  It's just pushing the problem
down the road.   The preferred workaround is to specify an explicit width if
your page layout expects a constant width.  (As you note, the 'square' image
option proposed in the RfC was voted down in favor of making the "no explicit
size" and "upright" options use a square bounding box.  You are encouraged to
read the transcript of the RfC discussions for more context.)

Personally, the better long-term solution is providing better semantic markup
for desired image size/layout, since the existing assumptions that images are a
certain size/fixed width/etc are rather hostile to mobile and PDF/print
rendering.

I appreciate the constructive suggestions.  The existing image option mechanism
is baroque and confusing.  I've fixed a number of bugs and corner cases
already; I'm sorry that this one is causing more pain that previous ones.  But
hopefully we can find some solid ways to continue to improve and simplify image
options.

[FWIW, from my work on the LaTeX PDF backends (which render pages in
double-column layouts), the most useful two semantic classes would be "single
column image" (and image intended to fit in a single column, with height
bounded to, say, 1/3 the page height and width bounded by the column width),
and "full width image" (used for timelines, panoramic images, and certain
diagrams) which are intended to span the full page.  Using only these two
semantic classes leads to pages which look consistent.]

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