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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: ascii export of url part of links possible?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:51:12 +0100
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On Feb 24, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> I didn't find a way to have export as ASCII export the URL
> of links.
>
> With a link whose URL is google's and whose label is
> "google main page", org exports:
>
>  try [google main page].
>
> I prefer this:
>
>  try http://google.com (google main page).

I agree, and this would be easy to to.  However, a problem is that
it would make lines potentially very long, as ASCII export does not
fill paragraphs.

I have been thinking that it might be better to force links into
footnotes for ascii export.....

What do you think?

- Carsten