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    Hi,<br>
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    On 2011-07-13 07:56, Thomas Schneider wrote:
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        <pre wrap="">If I understand you correctly, then I suggest using hyperref as in:

\usepackage{hyperref}
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'd forgotten about that package.  That
made the url have a blue box around it, but it still fails.

\href{<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~">http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~</a>{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}
     {<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~">http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~</a>{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}
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    this works for me:<br>
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    <style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style>
    <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">\documentclass{article}</p>
    <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p>
    <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">\usepackage[pdfborder={0 0
      0}]{hyperref}</p>
    <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p>
    <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">\begin{document}</p>
    <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p>
    <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">\url{<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html">http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html</a>}</p>
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    <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">\end{document}<br>
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      (tested in TeXworks, Acrobat Reader, and Evince on Linux; using
      pdflatex).<br>
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      HTH<br>
      Stefan<br>
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