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If I understand your suggestion correctly, specifying name doesn't work. \externalfigure[][name=flower[1].jpg] \externalfigure[name=flower[1].jpg] Cheers, Mike -----Original Message----- From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl on behalf of Hans Hagen Sent: Thu 12/27/2007 8:55 AM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] escaping filenames with externalfigure Santy, Michael wrote:
Is there a way to escape special characters in filenames passed to externalfigure. I'm encountering the situation where users are choosing images that may contain brackets or curly braces (e.g., flower[1].jpg or flower{1}.jpg). If I pass filename containing these characters directly to externalfigure, the closing bracket is mistaken for the end of the filename. \externalfigure[flower{1}.jpg] % works \externalfigure[flower[1].jpg] % doesn't work
I then tried to define a variable that holds the filename and pass that variable to externalfigure, but it ran into problems with curly braces.
\def\myimagefilename{flower[1].jpg} \externalfigure[\myimagefilename] % works
\def\myimagefilename{flower{1}.jpg} \externalfigure[\myimagefilename] % doesn't work
Does anyone have any idea how I could handle arbitrary filename inputs that contain brackets and curly braces?
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