Today I Learned that using quoted URLs in \(\LaTeX\) is quite tricky, and that `\detokenizer` is your friend.

I was trying to have a `\footnote` that pointed to the ALMA papers which are refereed, and that are published in the astronomy collection of the NASA Astronomy Database System (ADS) [1], and I was getting errors while trying to use
HyperRef's `\url` and `\href` commands, in particular a Runaway error inside footnote and href.

In the end, there were several issues that made LaTeX hickup on it.

The first one, the URL was not fully quoted, and needed to change `(` and `)` to their quoted versions,`%28` and `%29`, respectively, because the parenthesis were also considered suspect.

The second one, and is the main source of issues, is that `%`, in LaTeX, is the character for line comments: anything in the line after `%` is treated as a comment, unless it is in a verbatim environment… or inside `\detokenizer`.

Third, even with `\detokenizer{https://url.tld/%20quoted%20url}`, you might get issues.

So, what solved the issue?

🧵 1/2

#TIL #TodayILearned #LaTeX #HyperRef #HRef #XURL #detokenizer #LaTeXQuirks

I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

[1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

#CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

Digitale Methoden sollten Teil der universitären Geschichtslehre sein, findet Swantje Piotrowski. In ihre Seminaren steht das forschende Lernen im Vordergrund: Studierende analysierten mit #Recogito einen berühmten Reisebericht von 1633 – und entdeckten dabei, dass der Reiseverlauf so wie beschrieben nicht stattgefunden haben kann 👇

https://href.hypotheses.org/5225

#href #VHD #NFDI4Memory #DigitalHumanities #Lehre #DTA

Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat

https://aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2025/08/21/adding-my-home-electricity-uptime-to-status-href-cat/

#HackerNews #Adding #my #home #electricity #uptime #to #status.href.cat #status #href #cat #electricity #uptime #home #automation #tech #innovation

"Wenn ich all diese Quellen manuell hätte auswerten wollen, wäre ich mit der Quellenakquise wohl noch in zehn Jahren beschäftigt gewesen."

Lucie Kahlert nutzt das digitale Tool #MAXQDA, um im riesigen Quellenkorpus der Nürnberger Prozesse zu untersuchen, wie die Formel "Frauen und Kinder" die Rechtsprechung prägte ⬇

https://href.hypotheses.org/4766

#href #GHIWashington #NFDI4Memory #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistory #NSGeschichte #HolocaustStudies

Как сделать редирект с JavaScript?

Вопрос перенаправлений кажется простым или не особо серьезным для обдумывания, но в будущем может вызвать проблемы при слишком халатном подходе. Я хочу сравнить самые популярные методы для редиректов в браузере с помощью JavaScript, а так же способы как их сделать безопаснее и продуманнее.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/906744/

#редирект #перенаправление #javascript #href #assign #xss

Externe Links mittels CSS kennzeichnen

https://blog.tausys.de/2025/02/14/externe-links-mittels-css-kennzeichnen/

#css #href

"Ich stand viele Stunden am Kopierer und habe diese Fotokopien später noch eingescannt."

2008 sah digitales Arbeiten noch anders aus. Was Maret Nieländer vom @GeorgEckert Institut seitdem gelernt hat, verrät Sie hier 👇

https://href.hypotheses.org/3576

#Href