[tex4ht] [bug #131] url/ olinkurl do not expand macros

[CV Radhakrishnan]

Update of bug #131 (project tex4ht):

                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
                 Summary: url/
olinkurl do not expand macros => url/ olinkurl do not expand macros

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Follow-up Comment #1:

documentclass{article}
usepackage{hyperref}

newcommand{myUrl}{http://www.gnu.org}

urldef{myURL}url{http://www.gnu.org}

begin{document}

begin{description}
item[Query:] The url macro does not behave as expected in tex4ht: if  its
argument is actually a macro, it is not expanded, and instead of a link to the
value of the macro, we have a link to the name of the macro:

url{myUrl}

This is not the behavior of PDFLaTeX.

item[Answer:] Instead of defining the URL as a TeX macro, please define URL
as provided in the url package, then TeX4ht behaves as expected. Your
definition shall be changed to the format using verb+urldef+ instead of
verb+def+. The usage shall be then, verb+myURL+.

myURL

This should succeed both in pdfLaTeX and TeX4ht.

end{description}

end{document} 


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