[texhax] help with making active url link

[Thomas Schneider]

Sam:

> If I understand you correctly, then I suggest using hyperref as in:
> 
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> 
> then use the command:
> 
> \href{link}{Text describing the link}
> 
> Hyperref is also nice to modify the colour of the links and do other useful things in the pre-amble.

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{http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}
     {http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}

Acrobat gets my browser to:

> Not Found
> 
> The requested URL /~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html was not found on this server.

With skim it gets to:

http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/

Making '\~{}' to be '~' fails too.  The link is in a figure legend but
moving it to the main text doesn't help.

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
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  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
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