General ⇒ Neat RollOver Feature for Footnotes and References

[gregs1986]

Hello,

This is my first post here, and I am rather new to LaTeX so I am not quite sure if this is in the right forum.

Anyhow, one of my professors who uses LaTeX had a document wherein when you moved your mouse over the citation or the footnote number, an image of the footnote or the reference would appear next to the mouse. I have been searching all over trying to figure out how this is done, but to no avail.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could give me some pointers.

Thanks,

Greg

[torbjorn t.]

Have you asked your professor? Seems to me that would be the easiest way to find out how it was done.

There are a couple packages, such as fancytooltips, that can create tooltips, but I do not know if it is possible to have it do this with references and footnotes.

[frabjous]

Are you sure this wasn't a feature of the (PDF) viewer? Certainly there are web browser plugins that will do this for webpage links; probably the same could be done for a PDF viewer program too (with links created by, e.g., hyperref).

[gregs1986]

Are you sure this wasn't a feature of the (PDF) viewer? Certainly there are web browser plugins that will do this for webpage links; probably the same could be done for a PDF viewer program too (with links created by, e.g., hyperref).

I thought that that might be the case, but I have created documents with hyperref links and viewed them in the same viewer (Skim) without getting the effect.