Defining Macro With URL as Argument

Question

I want to define something like

\newcommand{\myhref}[2]{\href{#1}{do something with #1}}

and then paste URLs from the web into \myhref{...}{hello}.

The special characters in URLs mean that this works only if I fix up every URL (usually by preceding special characters with a \ ). It would be much more pleasant if I could tell myhref to inherit the rules of treating urls in argument #1 just-as-if-pass-verbatim from/to href.

the question is closely related to Problem with use of '#' in custom \href command . However, I need a more general solution. Unfortunately, URLs cannot just contain # , but _ and & and probably a few more special characters. Is there a more general solution?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '21 at 17:52

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\makeatletter
\DeclareRobustCommand*{\myurl}{\hyper@normalise\myurl@}
\def\myurl@#1{\hyper@linkurl{See also: \textbf{#1}}{#1}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

\myurl{https://github.com/latex3/hyperref/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+tuburl}

\end{document}

answered May 08 '21 at 17:52

Ulrike Fischer

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ulrike---can you please give a macro example with two arguments, in which only one argument is the robust URL? – ivo Welch May 10 '21 at 03:37
Your snippet didn't make use of the second argument, but the inner command can have a second argument. – Ulrike Fischer May 10 '21 at 07:02

Defining Macro With URL as Argument

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