On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

2006/10/24, Aditya Mahajan :

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Hi, What is the best way of typesetting a url from a variable. For example, if I have

\setvariables[test][website=http://www.xyz.com/~abc/first_index.html]

how can I print the url. I tried

\starttext \goto{\getvariable{test}{website}}[URL(\getvariable{test}{website})] \stoptext

but this does not seem to work. Any suggestions?

Aditya

Hi Aditya,

you should look into the log-file and will see it is a problem with the tilde in the url.

I know that the tilde is causing problems, but I do not know how to prevent that.

The following example works fine, tested on the garden with live ConTeXt.

Yes, but in my project, I need to pass the complete website address :-) Aditya

\setvariables[garden][website=http://www.contextgarden.net]

\starttext \goto{\getvariable{garden}{website}}[URL(\getvariable{garden}{website})] \stoptext

Wolfgang

-- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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2006/10/24, Aditya Mahajan :

...

Hi, What is the best way of typesetting a url from a variable. For example, if I have

\setvariables[test][website=http://www.xyz.com/~abc/first_index.html]

how can I print the url. I tried

\starttext \goto{\getvariable{test}{website}}[URL(\getvariable{test}{website})] \stoptext

but this does not seem to work. Any suggestions?

Aditya

Hi Aditya,

you should look into the log-file and will see it is a problem with the tilde in the url.

I know that the tilde is causing problems, but I do not know how to prevent that.

\expanded{\setvariables[test][website=http://www.xyz.com/\string~abc/first_index.html]}

...

\starttext \goto{\getvariable{garden}{website}}[URL(\getvariable{garden}{website})] \stoptext

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