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From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: escaping filenames with externalfigure
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:27:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0712270727m1cc620d2pae5e08c31c16cdec@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6703815B292B664DBAEC55EE3192386A20BD74@poseidon.in.dynetics.com>

> Wolfgang,
>
>  Thanks for the suggestion.  However, I'm using ConTeXt to typeset arbitrary
> XML input from users (and therefore arbitrary image filenames).  While your
> idea works for the two examples that I gave, it doesn't work if the curly
> braces aren't balanced in the filename (e.g., "flower{1.jpg").  Is there any
> general character escaping mechanism for macro arguments?
>
>  Cheers,
>  Mike

If you use xml as input format you could save the file name in a temporary
macro and use this macro now in the \externalfigure command. You already
gave a example for this.

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-27 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-27 14:09 Santy, Michael
2007-12-27 14:55 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-27 15:02   ` Santy, Michael
2007-12-27 14:56 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-27 15:05   ` Santy, Michael
2007-12-27 15:09   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-27 15:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-27 15:16   ` Santy, Michael
2007-12-27 15:27     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2007-12-27 15:58       ` Santy, Michael
2007-12-28 23:19         ` Hans Hagen
2008-01-03 13:35           ` Santy, Michael

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