Re: [NTG-context] url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core

2011-11-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan

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}]}


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Re: [NTG-context] url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core

2011-11-14 Thread 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: [NTG-context] url: Add macros to the ConTeXt core

2011-11-14 Thread mathew
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 03:42, Aditya Mahajan adit...@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.


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