Re: address@hidden: Where to ask for Info features?]

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Right now, in the application I am thinking of (a LaTeX help system
> written in Texinfo), I'd mostly need them on images, and I would
> probably have the tooltip identical to the cut&paste text.

Additional information: in many HTML browsers, a tooltip with the ALT
text is displayed when the mouse hovers over an image, and cutting
and pasting will also cut&paste the ALT text.

Another thing that I'd want in the context of images in Texinfo would
be a possibility to specify the descender value, the percentage of
image below the baseline.  That makes it possible to specify a row of
symbols as images and have them line up properly which is quite
important if you want to have convincing renderings of mathematics.

For an illustration, compare the screenshot
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net/screenshot.png> with
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net/xscreenshot.png>.

It is surprising how badly the look of mathematics suffers when the
baseline info gets lost (the bug has been fixed since then).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum