[pdftex] Rollover and Layers

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:25:12 Brad Burkman wrote:
> I want to create a page of exercises for my students (high-
school
> algebra) such that, when they roll over an exercise, a detailed 
solution
> will appear in a blank space on the page.  I have seen rollover 
popups
> in PDF, and I've used layers with animate.sty, but I can't find 
anything
> about rollovers with pdftex or pdflatex.  What I want is for a 
rollover
> to activate a switch to another layer that will have all of the 
same
> content plus a solution, then switch back to the top layer when 
the
> student rolls off the exercise.
>
>
>
> Suggestions?  Thanks.  Brad
>
>
>


That is pretty easy in HTML. See the source of my page 
http://wexfordpress.net/illos.html

If you don't need precision typesetting that might be a practical 
solution. 
-- 
John Culleton
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html