Re: Include paths for makeinfo

[Dumas Patrice]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:35:33PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
>     It looks at 
>       ('eps', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'pdf', 'png', 'svg');
> 
> HTML output, there's no real use in linking to an eps or a pdf as an
> image in html output, is there?  Browsers will not render them as an
> image within the page (at least not that I've ever seen), which is what
> is desired.

No, this is the list for docbook, not html.  For html, it is only 
  ('.png', '.jpg')

> Or maybe svg should come before all the bitmap formats.  I'm not

I could add svg for html, but it is still undecided.

> Now, Docbook might be a different story since people convert that to
> other formats.  (Is Docbook XML viewable directly?)

Yes, yelp, for instance, does that.

>  So maybe pdf+eps
> should come first in that case:
> pdf eps png jpg jpeg gif svg

In docbook all the file found are given.

>     I think it is better to provide both if possible, for accessibility,
> 
> For both HTML and Docbook ...  does a .txt form of an image really mean

Nope, only for Docbook.  For HTML the alt tag is used, but no .txt.

> anything for accessibility?  I don't see it.  ASCII art is not
> accessible.  The verbal descriptions useful for accessibility should be
> in the alt tag.

There is no alt tag in docbook, as far as I can say, but the .txt plays
that role within the <textobject><literallayout>.

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Pat