Re: Texinfo/info: scrolling images (Re: Gtk patch version 3, part 1)

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>]

"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:

> The images are built from plain ASCII characters, of course, but they
> are there.

That's something different.  lilypond authors want to document music
scores and at times I want to talk about graphical interfaces
(screenshots).   ASCII representations of such images are a) different
from the graphical ones and b) highly time consuming to "draw".

At other places, scrolling images is also very important: I'd like to
look at a scan and an OCRed text side by side, that's just 1 example.

> If you drive a car, you are `situationally blind' and should not look
> at images in a document, but only listen to it.

I'm not a car driver anymore ;) OTOH, please note I don't ask you to
drop a feature that helps blind users.  Enhance info in a manner that it
can hold alternative representations of the same contents (ASCII image,
audio variant, graphical image).

> People who have good vision and don't think if using their computers
> in theirscars often think images are wonderful.  The use too many of
> them.  And they design documents that don't hear well.

Yes, point taken.  I'm pretty sure it isn't that difficult to please
_all_ the emacs users.

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