Re: Bring up a screen giving option to open a series of orgmode files

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> For PDF and video with specific start time I am using different type
> of hyperlinks and not Org hyperlinks. So I was under impression that
> Org hyperlinks to PDF support specific page. I have even prepared
> myself to start including such in instructional manual. But do they?
> It implies that PDF viewer setting should be per user configurable to
> accept the page argument.

Manual does not mention that. However, looking into the code handling
opening file links, I can see that it is actually possible. By default,
the link like file:document.pdf::10 would run system command used to
open pdfs with "document.pdf::10" argument. Whether that system command
supports such kind of argument is another question (answer: probably,
no). On the other hand, user can customise org-file-apps variable and
put a lisp function to handle link opening. That function can transform
the "document.pdf::10" into something that can be passed to the pdf
viewer in system.

> One possible solution could be this. For annotations, hypothes.is uses
> Javascript library http://annotatorjs.org/ and I have not finished
> research of it. I just have some slight idea that the whole annotation
> and position of annotation could be captured in a hyperlink to it by
> using that library.

Thanks for the link.

> Maybe you know Javascript and you can try?

I don't know Javascript


Best,
Ihor