From: Eric Bischoff <ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr>
To: Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk>
Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: alt= in HTML
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39B75644.762355AE@cybercable.tm.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009062354070.24502-100000@laptop.linus.dk>
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Peter Toft wrote:
>
> wanted to transfer my Docbook->HTML generated book for
> blind people. They have a speach synthesis, but need
> the pictures to have the alt-tag set in the HTML code.
>
> I normally make a Docbook picture by
>
> <FIGURE ID="pto-fig" FLOAT="1">
> <TITLE>Peter Toft</TITLE>
> <GRAPHIC FILEREF="pto" SCALE="80"></GRAPHIC>
> </FIGURE>
>
> but this does not allow me to get an HTML code
>
> <IMG src="pto.png" alt="Peter Toft">
>
> which I need - I would accept, if I have to add the
> alt-text again - or something like that, but I need
> clues whether it is possible to get the alt-tag
> automagically :-)
Have you tried a <mediaobject>? It is specifically done to support
several formats for the same "object". So the user can view/hear/read a
picture, a sound, and a text, depending on how the people can/want to
see it.
BTW, it also solves the old problem "I want a PNG in HTML, and an EPS in
PostScript"
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