[OS X TeX] Funny bug in hyperref

[Victor Ivrii]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Alain Schremmer
<schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 6, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Alan Munn wrote:
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>> Is there a minimal tex source that can produce it?
>
>
> May not be minimal but here is a small one:
>
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{book}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{pdfsync}
> \usepackage{url}
> \usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false]{hyperref}%[pdfborder={0 0 0}]
>
> \begin{document}
> \chapter{Chapter}
> \section{Section The First}
> Some text
> \vspace{100mm}
> Some text
>
>
>
> Some text before Some text before Some text before Some text before Some
> text before Some text before Some text before
> \url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States}.)
>
>
> \section{Section The Second}
>
> Some text
>
> \end{document}
>
>
>
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Methinks that the problem is in underscore.

Use

\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States}{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication\_in\_the\_United\_States}.

instead


Victor

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