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Re: Hyperlinks

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  • 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


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