Taco, Thanks very much - I had necessarily simplified the example to show my simplest problem.
\expanded suits my purpose perfectly. On 19 Jun 2020, at 13:10, Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote: > On 19 Jun 2020, at 13:49, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 6/19/2020 1:28 PM, Nigel King wrote: >> Hi Group, >> I want to insert a variable hyper reference into a pdf document. The >> following method does not work for some reason. >> \def\hyperref{http://www.website.com/abc/def} >> show \hyperref >> Gives the correct answer but >> \useURL[this_doc][\hyperref][][displayed text] >> \from[this_doc] >> Gives >> hyperef%20 as the url >> What am I doing wrong? > the content is not expanded, why not just use > > \useURL[this_doc][http://www.website.com/abc/def][][displayed text] or \expanded{\useURL[this_doc][\hyperref][][displayed text]} if that is truly impossible for some reason. Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
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