Re: question about links, macros + org-publish and "parametrization"

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Martin Steffen <msteffen@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> The way I make that smooth is I define
>
> #LINK: exercises-web https://www.gitpages.io/somelecture/fall23/exercises
>
> ...
> So I am happy with that, but I wonder if I could make it even more
> parametrized. Like
>
>
>       combining macros with links
>
>
> like that "fall23" is an argument to a macros, which then builds up a
> link. But that does not to work in a naive way, like
>
>
> #+MACRO: semester fall24
> #+LINK: https://www.gitpages.io/somelecture/{{{semester}}}/exercises
> ...
> where semester is a macro, not a literal "fall24". The second reason is
> that the use as in (*) is not really useful, what I am  really after is
> something like
>
>        [[parametricexercizes(fall24)][the exercises are here]]

The simplest thing you can use is

#+LINK: exercises-web https://www.gitpages.io/somelecture/%s/exercises

[[exercises-web:fall24][the exercises are here]]

If you need something more complex, check out %(my-function) placeholder
instead of %s as described in "Link Abbreviations" section of Org manual.

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