Hello!

There is anyway to add an external link in a text area?

I've tried this, but doesn't work



P.S. isn't possible to nest a link into a single generic text area, like in the picture below? (it's an idea, for now doesn't work)




P.P.S. Many thanks to Andrey for the excellent job!!!

Edited by user 18 September 2012 01:28:10(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

The only difference between regular editable files and ones presented in the Reference book is this checkbox:


Regards.

I think it's a fantastic idea ; unfortunately currently the only way to manage links it's a text-editor... would be desirable to add a new voice in the context menu, something like the "input controls" of TheWizEd (http://en.smath.info/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=1153)

P.S. I've tried to redirect the smath link pointing an *.html file containing a classic meta tag

but seems that the smath link may point to *.sm local files only...

Hello,

"active" reference books are definitely preferrable over static ones (like pdf). From the author's perspective, this would much simplify the update of examples. Why do all the pdfs appear anyways? For real books you need elementary formatting and structuring tools, including cross referencing. Actually, you can include links to sm files in pdfs, but most browsers will block execution due to security reasons. An exception is the TexWorks pdf viewer that comes with MikTeX.

If we had self-exporting area regions (export everything between the delimiter lines to a file given by the region title), then we could insert smath snippets as external images in the text and back-link them against the sm file. Once the image is clicked, the sm file opens. Upon closing the file, all self-exports are updated and so are the externally linked images. In instruction books, you may prefer to freeze the externally linked images in the published versions, otherwise unexperienced users could spoil the book.

Best regards, Martin

Thanks for that hint. Following the idea of attaching files to pdfs, I found that there is a pdflatex package attachfile which looks promising. I definitely shall give this a try.

Attaching files to pdfs from within latex seems to work. I updated the handbook in the wiki (link in signature) which now contains two attachments: 1 sm on page 75 and 1 odt on page 46.

My experience in testing the file with different viewers (double clicking the links should open the file in the appropriate application):

texworks: completely unaware of attachments
Acrobat Reader:
sm file: "no associated application"
odt file: ok (open in Libre Office)
Foxit Reader: complains about illegal characters in the filenames (they have a " attached at the end)
PDF exchange viewer: same as Acrobat reader.

Acrobat and PDF exchange viewer can save the sm file to disk, from where they can be launched from file manager. Thus the file association is there. However, there seem to be different levels of tightness in these associations. LibreOffice and OpenOffice find their way to the standard software definition page in the systems control application, while SMath does not.

Any idea how to fix this is welcome.

pdf attachments work for me with the portable Smath version (pity it doesn't support plugins)

I unistalled the old version and removed all file associations, and tried to open the pdf attachments with the newest one unsuccesfully,
so I would say it is a problem with how the newer smath versions (for old versions seems to work) deals with the installation process and file associations in the registry.

Edited by user 26 February 2013 12:11:46(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified