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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hi,

The following macro should be helpful to look at:

    <assign|hop|<macro|x|y|<arg|x>, <if|<equal|<arg|y>|<uninit>>|--|<arg|y>>>>

You may find more information in the documentation on writing style files.

Best, --Joris


On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:34:22PM -0600, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona wrote:
> On 06/01/11 02:21, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:08:01PM -0600, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona wrote:
>>    
>>> I am interested in using texmacs as a wiki. One of the essential parts
>>> of wikis is links between documents. At this point I can link several
>>> texmacs documents using
>>>
>>> <hlink|NAME|/route/of/wiki/NAME.tm>
>>>
>>> But that is time consuming, as I have to write the route in every link,
>>> so I tried to make a macro that would do the job for me, like
>>>
>>> <assign|wlink2|<macro|name|<hlink|<arg|name>|/route/of/wiki/<arg|name>.tm>>>
>>>      
>> The second argument of hlink should be an url *string*. Hence, you should 
>> use
>> the 'merge' primitive for the concatenation of strings in order to write 
>> your macro.
>>
>> Best, --Joris
>>    
> Thank you! That worked perfectly. Now I want to do some more intrincate  
> things to make the links more wiki-like. Two things mainly:
>
> 1 .- Make it so that <wlink can accept either one or two arguments, so  
> it can be either <wlink|Name> or <wlink|Name_of_file|Name as it should  
> appear in the text>. My guess is that there some be some way to make the  
> second argument optional (as is donde in other programming languages),  
> and use an if then else statement in the macro so as to use or not use  
> the second argument.
>
> 2.- Make the link appear blue if the file exists, and red if it doesn't  
> exist.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Oscar.