BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ citation format for bib entries with URLs

[karlisrepsons]

Hopefully I don't anger anyone by asking multiple questions this day (well, will have to pay more attention to others problems later...).
In this case the problem is as follows:

in my bib file there is:

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@misc{microsoft:opentype,
 author = "Microsoft Typography",
 title = "OpenType specification",
 howpublished = "\url{http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec}"
}

in tex script I have:

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\href{http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otff.htm}{Microsoft Typography}
\cite{microsoft:opentype}

It is necessary, because in that way work will be easy to use both online and in printed form.

But how to make this automated, so there is no need to write \href... all of the time? For example: \urlcite{microsoft:opentype}{Microsoft Typography} or even just \urlcite{microsoft:opentype}, implying the author field of bib entry for the caption of \href?
Help appreciated...

[localghost]

Get used to posting full and compilable examples. Otherwise it is nearly impossible to give specific help. And we certainly don't want to become this a quiz.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[karlisrepsons]

Ok, will remember this.
Wasn't that hard either:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage
[
   colorlinks=true,
   breaklinks=true,
   pagebackref=true
]
{hyperref}


\begin{document}

\href{http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otff.htm}{Microsoft Typography}
\cite{microsoft:opentype}

\begin{thebibliography}{1}
   \bibitem{microsoft:opentype}
   Microsoft Typography.
   \newblock Opentype specification.
   \newblock \url{http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec}.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

(thebibliography environment, however, was generated from a .bib file)

So the idea is to write such a \newcommand, which would allow substitution as I described in the first post. But how can \url content be extracted from a bibitem?