[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}
>
>
>
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>
> /daleif
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