[O] exporting link abbreviations

2014-03-29 Thread Greg Minshall 
hi.  i'm playing with the example in the manual of a google map link
(gmap:).  technology is wonderful, and it's amazing (to simple-minded
me) to see the map pop up with the locations.

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

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).

i wonder if there's something i've missed?  or, if something could be
added?

cheers, Greg Minshall

Re: [O] exporting link abbreviations

2014-03-29 Thread Nicolas Goaziou 
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

Re: [O] exporting link abbreviations

2014-03-29 Thread Greg Minshall 
Nicholas,

 You may want to add gmap as a new link type with dedicated export
 functions. See `org-add-link-type'.

awesome -- thanks!  (sorry i didn't see it/think of it in the manual.)

cheers, Greg

Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote:

 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