Re: [icon-users] Enchancement request for URL links in TW
- From: J Peachey <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ICON-USERS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:48:16 +0100
In message <08081306000042_3E40E48A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"gwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> It would be very helpful if Techwriter could allow you to select (from a
> user-defined menu) text that is to be prepended (or appended) to the
> document text that is being made into a URL link. I have a document
> with a reference list to which I am adding ADS (Astrophysical Data System)
> bibcodes, to allow readers of the PDF version to go from the reference
> list to the ADS entry and thence to the referenced paper.
> As an example, the original form of a reference is:
> Henden, A. A., and Honeycutt, R. K., 1997, Secondary Photometric Standards
> for Northern Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , Publ. Astron. Soc.
> Pac. 109, 441 460.
> Adding the ADS bibcode gives me:
> Henden, A. A., and Honeycutt, R. K., 1997, Secondary Photometric Standards
> for Northern Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , Publ. Astron. Soc.
> Pac. 109, 441 460. [1997PASP..109..441H]
> Constructing the bibcode from the data originally is generally trivial.
> But in order for the link to function it has to have
> http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=
> prepended to the bibcode. Including this text in the body of the
> references for each and every bibcode isn't really an option as it would make
> the page look cluttered.
> Currently, I am adding the text manually each time I make the bibcode into
> a URL link. My problem is that there are hundreds of references and doing
> it manually for all of them will take a very long time.
> Just a suggestion to add to the list of desirable enhancements to TW.
If you want to add the url bit every time why not just enter something
like ~ bib code to the text then do a search and replace?
The other option might be to do it as a macro, which would be just one
keypress, although I haven't really used the macro facility.
The third alternative, if those ideas don't help is to create a new
button in WIBLi, which should be fairly straight forward.
Hope these ideas help.
John
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