Re: [NTG-context] escaping filenames with externalfigure

Wolfgang,

Thanks for the suggestion. However, I'm using ConTeXt to typeset arbitrary XML input from users (and therefore arbitrary image filenames). While your idea works for the two examples that I gave, it doesn't work if the curly braces aren't balanced in the filename (e.g., "flower{1.jpg"). Is there any general character escaping mechanism for macro arguments?

Cheers, Mike

If you use xml as input format you could save the file name in a temporary macro and use this macro now in the \externalfigure command. You already gave a example for this. Wolfgang