[OS X TeX] clickable url in Pdftex

[Alain Schremmer]

On May 28, 2012, at 4:58 AM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Alain,
>
> Use \href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic}{you name it} and  
> omit the pdfborder option - at least I did.
>
> Claus

Long time no see !!!! Glad to hear from you. (Mixing my metaphors here).

I had indeed not thought of using href---even though, of course, I do  
the equivalent in html. But here, I will stick with the url because  
many people read the Magnum Opus in print.

As I posted earlier, things with hyperref now work fairly well but, of  
course, I don't understand why: I am using titleref for, as I recall,  
the chapter tocs but Arseneau himself says not to and to use nameref  
(which is part of hyperref) instead.

By the way, hyperref killed makeidx until I found on the web that  
showidx had to come after hyperref. Now things work almost well: I can  
typeset a chapter from its "chapter root"---and it is perfect, but I  
cannot typeset it from the "book root".  Working on it.

Not a big problem, though, because the people who read the MG online  
seem to read it chapter by chapter while those who print it print the  
whole book. So, I can always play it both ways.

Hope to see you one of these days.
--schremmer

P.S. In Philadelphia.


>
>
> On May 26, 2012, at 22:01, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> In the interest of leanness, I thought to replace some background  
>> in the Magnum Opus by references to Wikipedia.
>>
>> I wrote the Magnum Opus with hard copy in mind but it turns out a  
>> number of people read it on line which made me think of making the  
>> url clickable. So, I put
>>
>> \usepackage{hyperref}%[pdfborder={0 0 0}]
>>
>> in the preamble and documents that compiled very nicely until then,  
>> including stuff like:
>>
>>> (See \url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic})
>>
>> immediately failed with the message:
>>
>>> LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 250, version
>>>              `2009/07/21' of package kvoptions,
>>>              but only version
>>>              `2007/10/18 v3.0 Keyval support for LaTeX options (HO)'
>>>              is available.
>>>
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/ 
>>> hyperref.cfg)
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty: 
>>> 3896: Undefined control sequence.
>>> l.3896 \DeclareLocalOptions
>>>                          {%
>>> ?
>>
>> However, line 250 is in the middle of a big block of text that is  
>> commented out.
>>
>> As for "kvoptions", I installed Mac Tex a few months ago when I  
>> went from 10.4.11 to 10.5.8.  and I forgot how to find the version  
>> number via the terminal.
>>
>> Once hyperref was removed, all went back to smooth operation. So no  
>> harm but hyperref is truly not for the faint of heart.
>>
>> Still, what did I do wrong? (<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks 
>> > did not help.)
>>
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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