From: "Giuseppe Bilotta" <oblomov@freemail.it>
Subject: Tooltips suggestions
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:45:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003101c08b08$2de73420$a3ccfea9@nuovo> (raw)
Hello,
I'm now wasting my time on tooltips :-), I thing that I dreamt of for a long
time; and wosh! lots of ideas! Since I like complicated things, I thought of the
following possible spoilments ...er, enhancements... for the tooltips:
* tooltips with non-fixed height (this can be achieved by changing an \inframed
into \framed), so that they can hold mathematics too;
* [connected with the above] multi-line tooltips (\\ does nothing in a tooltip);
this should also imply allowing for multi-paragraph text, and
allowing the user to choose a fixed width for the tooltip; note that the
multiline tooltip can be obtained by passing as argument
{\vbox{\hbox{first line}\hbox{second line}}, but if \box\tooltipbox has been
defined that way, passing {\box\tooltipbox} fails (too many }'s); why is this?
* customizable tooltips (custom background, mostly, and allowing them to appear
also above (not below, as they are now) the text, etc);
* "fixable" tooltips: clicking on the active zone or on them would "fix" them,
clicking again would restore them to tooltip status;
* now the hardest one: foottips/toolnotes or whatever: footnotes that also act
as tooltips (the footnote still being available at the bottom of the page, but
the footnote number being an active); a not-at-all good approximation of this is
the following code:
\def\FootNote#1{\setbox0=\hbox{\postponefootnotes\footnote{#1}}
\tooltip[middle]{\box0}{#1}}
Actually all the above suggestions can be achieved handcrafting a few macros
based on the ConTeXt predefined ones, but I thought it would be nice to have
them prepackaged ...
Giuseppe Bilotta
Using Microsoft products is like
having sex without condoms---but
much less pleasurable
next reply other threads:[~2001-01-30 21:45 UTC|newest]
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2001-01-30 21:45 Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2001-01-31 9:51 ` Hans Hagen
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