Comments on: How to link to web pages from LaTeX-generated PDF

By: Ed Feng

Ed Feng — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:10:37 +0000

John,

Thanks, made my life easy. You showed up in my Twitter feed last week. How about a follow as thanks?

By: pal2

pal2 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:57:23 +0000

it’s too good …simple …..

By: Raz Ofek

Raz Ofek — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:22:01 +0000

I want to have the effect of an \hyperref but I don’t really want to link it to a web site. What I want is to have a box, with the text I provide, open whenever the cursor is on the supposed link. Nothing more. Any idea how I can do that?

By: Anomalie

Anomalie — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:13:48 +0000

Thanks for that suggestion. I still feel that it should be possible to address the url wrapping problem within latex. I mean I suspect some of the above packages deliberately avoid breaking at hyphens because it creates ambiguity as to whether the hyphen is meant as a breaking hyphen or is actually a non-breaking hyphen that is part of the original URL.

The conflicts and overrides generated by successively calling on multiple packages really means you have to rack your brain to figure out the right order to call packages. Ultimately it may not be possible to manipulate the order so all commands provided by these packages work as they are intended to.

I’m using all of

\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{breakurl}

Can John or somebody else suggest a Latex solution, for a long URL with many hyphens?

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:06:25 +0000

One way around the problem is to shrink the URL first through a service like bit.ly or goo.gl.

By: Anomalie

Anomalie — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:02:19 +0000

An address like http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-docs-has-equation-editor-oh-i-am-so-excited-this-has-been-a-long-time-coming-goodness-gracious-me-blah-blah-blah-someobody-shoot-me.html is not going to be solved even with all of these in effect

\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{breakurl}

because it’s not allowed to break at a hyphen, at least I couldn’t get it to. Help, please?

By: billy bob

billy bob — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:21:19 +0000

If you use dvipdfm to make your pdf, you’ll need to use the following command:
\usepackage[dvipdfm]{hyperref}
in place of
\usepackage{hyperref}

Best!

By: Greg2

Greg2 — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:16:45 +0000

Actually I found the solution myself:

\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{breakurl}

\url{http://www.thereallyreallyverylonglink.com/pointing/to/some/interesting/stuff/in/the/web}

it seems to be important to import the packages in this order!

HTH
g

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:48:05 +0000

hi,

I managed to use \href to add a weblink to my pdf. however i want the anchor text to be equal to the url (in order to also enable someone who printed the doc get to that web page). so I do:
\href{}{}

The problem is that the URL is much longer than the textwidth. how can i make the link use multiple lines?

Thanks in advance!
greg

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By: John

John — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:08:06 +0000

Rafael: Yes, that would be fine. Thanks.

By: Rafael Beraldo

Rafael Beraldo — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:58:57 +0000

John,

Can I translate some of your posts on LaTeX to Portuguese and post them in my own blog, of course referring to the original post? They’re quite straightforward.

Thanks!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:42:42 +0000

thank you.
very nice post.
clean, simple AND effective

By: cagatay

cagatay — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:34:34 +0000

not just Jensse; John i meant, infact

By: cagatay

cagatay — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:33:33 +0000

Thank you for this information Jensse It has really helped me.

By: Jensse

Jensse — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:07:00 +0000

Manuel… and others… you have probably forgotten to add the:
\usepackage{hyperref}
Just place it below the documentclass statement

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:11:35 +0000

It is not working now(2010) ¿what is happening?

By: Carlos Hidalgo

Carlos Hidalgo — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:24:04 +0000

Thanks a lot. This is the simple statement about how to use \href I was looking for!
Much clearer than the ’short’ documentation of the hyperref package.