* url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core
@ 2011-11-13 18:38 Paul Menzel
2011-11-14 9:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Paul Menzel @ 2011-11-13 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
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Dear ConTeXt folks,
looking into typesetting URLs I find typesetting URLs quite cumbersome.
Maybe I have not used that feature that often so I am not seeing the
advantage to first define a URL somewhere and give it a name
\useURL[aurl] [http://xkcd.com/149/] [] [I prefer hot
dogs.]
and then later use it.
\url[aurl]
The proposed macros(?) in the section »Tipps and Tricks« [2]
\def\href#1#2{\useURL[#2][{#2}][][{#1}]\goto{\url[#2]}[url(#1)]}
\def\ahref#1{\color[linkcolor]{\ttx \href{#1}{<#1>}}}
\def\fullahref#1{\color[linkcolor]{\ttx \href{#1}{http://#1}}}
\def\mailto#1{\useURL[#1][mailto:#1][][#1]\from[{#1}]}
\def\MailTo#1#2{\useURL[#1][mailto:#1][][#2]\from[{#1}]}
seem quite useful. Could they be added to the ConTeXt core(?)?
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/url
[2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/url#Tipps_and_Tricks
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* Re: url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core
2011-11-13 18:38 url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core Paul Menzel
@ 2011-11-14 9:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-11-14 17:41 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-11-14 19:38 ` mathew
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2011-11-14 9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Paul Menzel wrote:
>
> looking into typesetting URLs I find typesetting URLs quite cumbersome.
>
> Maybe I have not used that feature that often so I am not seeing the
> advantage to first define a URL somewhere and give it a name
>
> \useURL[aurl] [http://xkcd.com/149/] [] [I prefer hot
> dogs.]
>
> and then later use it.
>
> \url[aurl]
You just showed below why this is useful, by first using the urls ...
> The proposed macros(?) in the section »Tipps and Tricks« [2]
> [snip]
and then defining them.
> [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/url
> [2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/url#Tipps_and_Tricks
ConTeXt is just doing the reverse: first define the urls and then use
them :)
I support having commands which typeset the urls directly, but the macros on the
wiki are not the best ones.
> \def\href#1#2{\useURL[#2][{#2}][][{#1}]\goto{\url[#2]}[url(#1)]}
Why not simply:
\def\href#1#2{\goto{#2}[url(#1)]}
Or did I miss something?
> \def\ahref#1{\color[linkcolor]{\ttx \href{#1}{<#1>}}}
> \def\fullahref#1{\color[linkcolor]{\ttx \href{#1}{http://#1}}}
These could be easily wrapped around using \useURL and \url (perhaps by adding
left and right keys to \setupurl) but \url does not create a hyperlink:
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110915.115247.f23c2aad.en.html
> \def\mailto#1{\useURL[#1][mailto:#1][][#1]\from[{#1}]}
> \def\MailTo#1#2{\useURL[#1][mailto:#1][][#2]\from[{#1}]}
Aditya
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* Re: url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core
2011-11-14 9:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
@ 2011-11-14 17:41 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-11-14 19:38 ` mathew
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From: Khaled Hosny @ 2011-11-14 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 04:42:54AM -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> I support having commands which typeset the urls directly, but the macros on the
> wiki are not the best ones.
>
> >\def\href#1#2{\useURL[#2][{#2}][][{#1}]\goto{\url[#2]}[url(#1)]}
>
> Why not simply:
>
> \def\href#1#2{\goto{#2}[url(#1)]}
I use something like that all the time.
Regards,
Khaled
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* Re: url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core
2011-11-14 9:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-11-14 17:41 ` Khaled Hosny
@ 2011-11-14 19:38 ` mathew
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From: mathew @ 2011-11-14 19:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 03:42, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> Why not simply:
>
> \def\href#1#2{\goto{#2}[url(#**1)]}
>
> Or did I miss something?
I use this:
% Define \Site[id][url]{description} to put in a clickable link
% with footnoted URL
\def\Site[#1][#2]#3{\useURL[#1][#2][][#3]\from[#1]\footnote[#1]{\tt\hyphenatedurl{#2}}}
That way people reading PDFs on a computer can click the site name in the
text to go there, and not have to see a URL; those with printed copies can
look at the footnote at the bottom of the page to find the URL and type it
in.
mathew
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