On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:56:14 +0100 Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > > \externalfigure[{flower[1].jpg}] may also work This did not work, the bracket after 1 is interpreted as the end for externalfigure and ConTeXt looks for a figure with the name "flower[1" but brackets in figure names could be used with \useexternalfigure. > > 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? > > > > Cheers, > > Mike Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________