General ⇒ Is this functionality provided in LATEX?

[amit.t]

Dear All,

I am new to LATEX and still learning the basics. My main objective to learn LATEX is to take notes [am a research student in mathematics]. Now please look at this line:

\begin

Let C be a curve of Arithmetic genus g.

\end

My question is, is it possible in LATEX that if i bring my mouse on the underlined word ("arithmetic genus" in the line above), it pops up a small window which contains certain notes on the underlined word.

In other words, i write the definition of (say) "Arithmetic genus" in a different file and link location of that definition to the current file and when pointed by the cursor, it pops up the definition in the current file itself.

Thanks,
Amit

[josephwright]

Use the hyperref package, and it will turn links into hyperlinks (for example, between a \ref and a section it refers to).

[frabjous]

I think what amit.t wants is a tooltip. I'm not sure whether or not that can be done with just hyperref. You can do it with the cooltooltips package, however.

[gmedina]

frabjous, thanks for the info about the cooltooltips package; I didn't know it and it can be useful.

[sitex]

I used fancytooltips.sty to generate the pop-ups in the product rule file demonstration. (See the video or pdf file by navigating to http://www.sitextools.com and clicking on the samples link). As I recall I used Don Story's excellent aeb_pro package (http://www.acrotex.net) package to generate the pop-ups in the eBook file.

[amit.t]

Thanks to all of you for replying.

@frabjous:

I will look into the cooltooltips package. I guess this is what i need.

[frabjous]

Do check it out. Also look at the fancytooltips package which sitex mentioned: it looks even more powerful. I have no real experience with either of them, however.

And do keep in mind that not everyone uses Adobe Reader or Acrobat.