hyperlinks in context documents

hyperlinks in context documents

[Stefan Schnitter]

Hi,

I'm quite new to context, but didn't find the following in the
documentation:

What is the context-way to include links to web URLs in a document?
I found something in the pdftex manual (\pdfannotlink ....\pdfendlink)
but when I use this it changes the document layout: the whole 
page moves some centimeters to the right (I use one of the 
presentation styles from pragma)

Also, is it possible to start external programs via a link (i.e.
an image viewer or something like this)?

Last question: Is there a (searchable) archive of this mailing-list?

TIA, Stefan Schnitter.
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Re: hyperlinks in context documents

[Hans Hagen]

At 02:27 PM 5/18/2000 +0200, Stefan Schnitter wrote:

>What is the context-way to include links to web URLs in a document?
>I found something in the pdftex manual (\pdfannotlink ....\pdfendlink)

Never use those low level primitives directly. Actually, I don't even use
this particular one in the drivers but the more generalized \pdfannot, as I
let tex do the split in words.  

>but when I use this it changes the document layout: the whole 
>page moves some centimeters to the right (I use one of the 
>presentation styles from pragma)

Just say : 

\useURL[someurl][..url...]

\goto {wherever you want to go} [url(someurl)] or even \goto {somewhere}
[url(...url...)]

I prefer the indirect method. 

>Also, is it possible to start external programs via a link (i.e.
>an image viewer or something like this)?

\defineprogram[identifier][call sequence]

\goto {launch me} [program(identifier)]

etc etc. Some examples can be found in 1998-001 up-to-date. 

>Last question: Is there a (searchable) archive of this mailing-list?

Matthew? [since you move, i suppose the archive is on the hold] Any ideas
on this? 

Hans

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Re: hyperlinks in context documents

[Ed L Cashin]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> Matthew? [since you move, i suppose the archive is on the hold] Any
> ideas on this?

The tetex mailing list and the bbdb-info mailing list have been using
the free service at:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/

... and that seems to be going well.  

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Re: hyperlinks in context documents

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:47 AM 5/19/2000 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:

>the free service at:
>
>    http://www.mail-archive.com/
>
>... and that seems to be going well.  

Looks nice. How about old mails? 

Hans

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mail archives (was Re: hyperlinks in context documents)

[Ed L Cashin]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> At 08:47 AM 5/19/2000 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> 
> >the free service at:
> >
> >    http://www.mail-archive.com/
> >
> >... and that seems to be going well.  
> 
> Looks nice. How about old mails? 

I have archives going back to September 1999, probably there are other
NTG-context archives, and the www.mail-archive.com FAQ says that it's
possible to add old messages to an archive by bouncing (redirecting,
not forwarding) the old messages to the archiving address.

They have a perl script that runs on UNIX-like systems to facilitate
the bounce-old-messages-to-the-archiving-address process.

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