Re: Hyperlinks
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg98398] Re: Hyperlinks
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:51:50 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <grhp6g$mgo$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi, > Hyperlinks in notebooks can only link to tagged cells in the notebook or to > URLs on the web, or so it seems. > I would find it useful to be able to link to an external file (not a > notebook nor a text file) and having the file opened by the default external > application that handles the given file type. > Would it be possible to implement this, maybe programmatically (functions > sending commands to the operating system ? Applescript ?) ? Have you tried the standard way to encode local filenames as an URI: file://(full path to your file with leading /) like: file:///tmp/file.pdf I would be quite confident that this would just work on a Mac, although I can't test it... hth, albert