Hello, Greg Minshall <minsh...@acm.org> writes:
> but, i'm less happy with how these links look when i've provided no > description and they are exported. if i have a link like: > ---- > [[gmap:123 Main Street, Our Town, California, United States]] > ---- > > what is *shown* on the exported web page (say) is something ugly like: > ---- > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=123%20Main%20Street,%20Our%20Town,%20California,%20United%20States > ---- > > i'd rather not specify the address twice (once in the link tag, a second > time in the link description), out of laziness, i guess (but also for > 2nd-normal-form'ity). > > what i'd *like* the user to see on the web page is the address ("123 > Main Street, Out Town, California, United States", in this example). > > i could define a macro: > ---- > #+MACRO: gmap [[gmap: $1][$1]] > ---- > and invoke it with > ---- > {{{gmap(123 Main Street Los Altos California United States)}}} > ---- > > but then > 1) i'd have to get rid of the commas in the address (it might > be nice to have a "$*" or some such to give the entire argument ); and No, you don't have to. Commas can be escaped within a macro: {{{gmap(123 Main Street\, Los Altos\, California\, United States)}}} > 2) i wouldn't have the link active in my org-mode buffer itself > (something i find so magical, plus it helps entering the info to be able > to check the map before exporting). You may want to add gmap as a new link type with dedicated export functions. See `org-add-link-type'. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou