[texhax] \url with space (%20)

Sharon Baker grover2 at asu.edu
Thu Feb 19 05:56:56 CET 2009


Yay!

Thanks, that worked.  I was using TeXShop and it "looked" like it was  
"commenting out" from the % sign and after, so I assumed it wasn't  
liking it.

Thanks again :)

Sharon

On Feb 13, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Lars Madsen wrote:

> Sharon Baker wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>> I'm new to this email list.  I looked in the archives and found   
>> related topics, but not the answer I'm looking for:
>> To write my thesis I'm using apacite and BibTeX.  In the bib file  
>> I  have a reference that contains a URL and I'm using \url.  My  
>> problem  is that the URL contains a space (which is replaced with  
>> "%20" by the  browser).  We all know that % begins a comment on  
>> that line, so in  order to escape, we use a \ in front of the %.   
>> However, what happens  to my bib entry is that it ends up printing  
>> the \ before the %20 so  the URL will be invalid when "copy- 
>> pasted" from the PDF.  How can I  not print the escape character  
>> '\' in the URL and still print the % 20?  I also tried leaving a  
>> space between "Alternative" and "methods"  instead of using the \% 
>> 20 but the \url package ignored the space and  merged the two  
>> words (which is also inccorect).
>> This is my entry:
>> @misc{Ludescher2006,
>>    title = {The {D}irect {M}ethod},
>>    author = {Ludescher, Franz},
>>    year  = {2006},
>>    howpublished = {Retrieved January 29, 2009, from:
>>          \url{http://www2.vobs.at/ludescher/Alternative\% 
>> 20methods/ direct_method.htm}\bibnodot{.}}
>> }
>> Thanks!
>> Sharon
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>
> this works just fine for me, no need to escape, bibtex does not  
> look at the contents, so this example should be enough
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
> \usepackage{url}
> \begin{document}
> \url{http://www2.vobs.at/ludescher/Alternative%20methods/ 
> direct_method.htm}
> \end{document}
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> /daleif



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