Re: Displaying images for html output

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 01:47:41PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > > @image{../../Ideogr/Ch03b--Chmed/igc03--01--Sicl--CircAmRg,8cm,8cm,AltText,png}
> > >
> > > Furthermore, you cannot put ".png" as the fifth argument because for html 
> > > that will
> > > fail.  You have to put "png", without the period dot.
> >
> > This would be a bug if it is true.  The manual says to include the period:
> 
> Have you confirmed the bug, Gavin, Patrice?

Yes, it is confirmed, as far as I can tell.

> 
> 
> 
> > Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 6:42 PM
> > From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> > Subject: Re: Displaying images for html output
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 05:12:13PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > >
> > > It is the fifth and I still get the Alt Text Attribute.
> > >
> > > The output was
> > >
> > > ../Ideogr/Ch03b--Chmed/igc03--01--Sicl--CircAmRg
> > >
> > > If I put
> > >
> > > @image{../Ideogr/Ch03b--Chmed/igc03--01--Sicl--CircAmRg,8cm,8cm,AltText,.png}
> > >
> > > I get AltText
> > >
> > > But now I have understood the problem,
> > >
> > > Although the file exists at 
> > > ../Ideogr/Ch03b--Chmed/igc03--01--Sicl--CircAmRg.png
> > > because the html index file resides in a subdirectory generated by 
> > > texi2any, the
> > > code got to be changed to
> > >
> > > @image{../../Ideogr/Ch03b--Chmed/igc03--01--Sicl--CircAmRg,8cm,8cm,AltText,png}
> > >
> > > Furthermore, you cannot put ".png" as the fifth argument because for html 
> > > that will
> > > fail.  You have to put "png", without the period dot.
> >
> > This would be a bug if it is true.  The manual says to include the period:
> >
> >    * For Info and HTML output, 'makeinfo' uses the optional fifth
> >      argument EXTENSION to '@image' for the filename extension, if it is
> >      specified and the file is found.  Any leading period should be
> >      included in EXTENSION.  For example:
> >
> >           @image{foo,,,,.xpm}
> >
>