Thread:Project:Support desk/How to displaying only part of image

Hi folks,

Is there a way to display just small, defined area of image using MediaWiki's ?

Let's say you have a scan of book page, and you want to show only illustration on that page, without showing whole scanned page (with text, etc..). Speaking more techicaly let's say we have image of 1000x800px and you want to display only a small part of it starting from possition 200,50 and with height width, 100 and 300.

Is it currently possible? Or planned in near future? I guess this will be very useful, especially for Wikisource.

I've googled for a while, and looked thorugh MedaWiki manuals, but didn't find an answer. I understand that currently there's no way to make it using only HTML tag, but this can be done, using block elements, or displaying image as background.

Thanks beforehad,