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In this way, if you won't want to scale an image, you can safely omit the <code>@width</code> and <code>@height</code> attributes.</p> <aside class="note"> <span class="note-title">Note</span>Like parameters, attributes can contain other macros, too. </aside> <nav class="navigation"><a href="/glyph/book/text_editing/macro_intro.html">Introducing Glyph Macros</a> | <a href="/glyph/book/index.html">Contents</a> | <a href="/glyph/book/text_editing/macro_composition.html">Macro Composition</a></nav> <nav id="sharing-buttons"> <a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="h3rald">Tweet</a> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <g:plusone size="medium"></g:plusone> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); </script> </nav> </section> </article> <footer> <section class="ads"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-2871497824158668"; /* 728x90, created 9/10/10 */ google_ad_slot = "3963343166"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </section> <section> <nav> <a href="/about/">ABOUT</a>|<a href="/contact/">CONTACT</a> </nav> <p>H3RALD Web Site v8.1.2 © 2004 — 2011 <em>Fabio Cevasco</em></p> </section> </footer> </section><!-- #container end --> <!-- Start Google Analytics --> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-18587377-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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