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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: typesetting a url from variabless
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:58:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45406AC1.3070509@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0610241249310.3244@nqvgln>

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>   
>> 2006/10/24, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>> What is the best way of typesetting a url from a variable. For
>>> example, if I have
>>>
>>> \setvariables[test][website=http://www.xyz.com/~abc/first_index.html]
>>>
>>> how can I print the url. I tried
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> \goto{\getvariable{test}{website}}[URL(\getvariable{test}{website})]
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> but this does not seem to work. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Aditya
>>>       
>> Hi Aditya,
>>
>> you should look into the log-file and will see it is a problem with the
>> tilde
>> in the url.
>>     
>
> I know that the tilde is causing problems, but I do not know how to 
> prevent that.
>
>   

\expanded{\setvariables[test][website=http://www.xyz.com/\string~abc/first_index.html]}

>   
>
>> \starttext
>> \goto{\getvariable{garden}{website}}[URL(\getvariable{garden}{website})]
>> \stoptext
>>     

\expanded{\goto{\getvariable{garden}{website}}[URL(\getvariable{garden}{website})]}

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-26  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-23 22:37 Aditya Mahajan
2006-10-24 14:55 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2006-10-24 16:51   ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-10-24 17:43     ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-10-26  7:58     ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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