extended @uref command? (was: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5)

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Sat, May 03 2003, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I think it's better to use @uref with 2 arguments here, like this:
>
>    @uref{http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html, The Emacs
>    Lisp List (ELL)}, maintained by
>
> The results will look better in HTML, for example.

ACK.  But in the printed version (produced with texi2dvi) looks like
this:

| The Emacs Lisp List (ELL)
| (http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html)

Especially with long URLs, this isn't very readable and often leeds to
`underfull \hbox'es.

Therefore, I use a macro @rsuref, producing a footnote in non-html
output:

@macro rsuref{url,text}
@ifhtml
@uref{\url\,\text\}@c
@end ifhtml
@ifnothtml
\text\@footnote{@uref{\url\} (\text\)}@c
@end ifnothtml
@end macro

Would it make sense to add a similar command (say @furef{url,text}) in
texinfo (or extend @uref{})?

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Bye, Reiner.
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