[OS X TeX] Problem opening urls from within a Beamer document

[Paul Dulaney]

Dr Ross,

Thanks for detecting the error in plain sight!

Paul Dulaney

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:45 PM Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> You haven’t put in the protocol:   “http://docs.julialang.org/en/v1 “
>
> The protocol is “vital”  otherwise the PDF browser
> doesn’t know whether you are providing a local URI, to a file on disk,
> or whether it needs to call a web-browser to open the link.
>
> The lazy habit, that has arisen with web-browsers,
> of leaving out the protocol is something that will bite back badly.
> This is just one example of this.
>
> It’s OK when the choice of possible protocols is limited;
> but inside a PDF file, that certainly is *not* the case.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Ross
>
>
> On 18 Dec 2020, at 12:52 pm, Paul Dulaney <pmdulaney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've used TeXShop and the LuaLaTeX engine for a good while, but just
> recently I
> A. Started using Beamer; and
> B. Upgraded to macos Big Sur.
>
> MY CODE (excerpts):
>
> \usepackage{hyperref}
>
> ---
>
> \begin{frame}{Julia's official documentation is excellent}
> \centerline{\url{docs.julialang.org/en/v1
> <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tZiqC6XQ68fQDx2jImiiE9?domain=docs.julialang.org>
> }}
> \end{frame}
>
> THE PROBLEM:
>
> Compiling the package works fine, but when I click on the
>
>           docs.julialang.org/en/v1
> <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tZiqC6XQ68fQDx2jImiiE9?domain=docs.julialang.org>
>
> link I get a pop-up error from the OS that says:
>
>      The application can't be opened
>       -50
>
> Thanking you all in advance for any help!
> Paul Dulaney
> Los Angeles, Calif.
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