[OS X TeX] Funny bug in hyperref

[Ross Moore]

Hi Alain, and Victor,

Since your example loads the  url  package,
it is often a good idea to make use of  \urldef , which it defines.

> 
>> \documentclass[11pt]{book}
>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>> \usepackage{pdfsync}
>> \usepackage{url}

\urldef\MetricUSurl\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States}

>> \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 
\MetricUSurl.)
%\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States}.)
>> 
>> 
>> \section{Section The Second}
>> 
>> Some text
>> 
>> \end{document}


The use of  \urldef  *must* come before hyperref is loaded, since hyperref changes the definition of  \url .
After hyperref has been loaded, the syntax of  \urldef\....\url{...}  will fail, because of that redefinition. But it is handy to have all of your URLs defined in the preamble, so that the body of your document is not cluttered with long URL constructions, but just neat meaningful macro names. URLs defined this way also work in footnotes, and within expansions of other macros, since all the required catcode changes for special characters have already taken place.



> 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}.

\urldef  avoids the need for this kind of duplication.

> 
> instead
> 
> 
> Victor

Cheers,

       Ross