Re: Displaying SVG with embedded links

On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 07:55:10AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2026 19:06:21 +0200
> > Cc: Michael Heerdegen <[email protected]>,
> > 	[email protected]
> > From:  <[email protected]>
> > 
> > > > But I would have to do that all manually, including parsing the svg
> > > > file's source - right?
> > > 
> > > Parsing for what purpose?
> > 
> > I think Michael wants a hot spot for each link /whithin/ the SVG. For
> > this, he needs to know where those links in the SVG are (NB: in SVG,
> > you can embed <a href="...">...</a> elements, they are allowed in the
> > definition, and browsers honour them)
> 
> If you mean parsing for the purpose of determining the coordinates of
> the links which should be mouse-sensitive, then yes, this will need
> SVG parsed.  Hopefully, the svg.el package already in Emacs could help
> (not that I ever used it for this purpose).

Yes, that's how I understand Michael.

> > > What I had in mind is just adding :map to the image descriptor which
> > > names the SVG file name (or SVG data, if that's how you pass the image
> > > to Emacs).
> > 
> > I think Michael wants a more fine-grained approach; if I understand
> > you correctly, the whole SVG image would be just one button, right?
> 
> No, there could be several, see the description of :map in the ELisp
> manual.

Yes, I got that, thanks :-)

Cheers
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