Re: Syntax classes of text in href

[Arash Esbati]

Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com> writes:

> Nevertheless, IMO, treating a url as verbatim seems to be the main
> issue since it clearly is not (e.g., macros are processed).

This is LaTeX, there is always a package which does something
(non-)special ;-)

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fvextra}
\begin{document}

\noindent
\Verb[commandchars=\\\{\}]{Pre \fbox{Middle} Post} or \\
\Verb[commandchars=\\\{\}]|Pre \fbox{Middle} Post|

\end{document}

> It's just that some characters have special treatment that differs
> from normal TeX.

And this is also the way AUCTeX looks at: AUCTeX doesn't grok the
meaning of the macros and what they do while they expand.  Looking at it
this way, url's and verbatim text are quite close.

Best, Arash