url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core

url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core

[Paul Menzel]

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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

[Aditya Mahajan]

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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

[Khaled Hosny]

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

[mathew]

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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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