Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 26, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> HTML <img> tags allow both alternate text (rendered when the image
>> can't
>> be rendered), as well as titles which show as tooltips on hover.  I
>> wonder if it would be difficult to place the text latex used in
>> generating an image into these two fields.  If not then I at least
>> would
>> find it useful.
>
> It is not trivial, but not too hard either.
>
> It is not trivial because Org first produces the images and inserts
> org-style links. Later, in a second step, these links are replaced
> (formatted for HTML).
> One way to solve this is that `org-format-latex' will add this
> information
> as text properties to the link.  Then later, when the HTML formatting
> is done,
> the text property could be retrieved and converted into the attributes
> you are mentioning.
>
> You have worked on org-format-latex before, I think this should be
> relatively easy for you.
>
> - Carsten