[texhax] Making URLs live (fwd)

[Michael Barr]

After a private exchange with Lars Madsen over my question, in which he 
asked me to post a minimal example, here it is.

I am using Miktex, v. 2.7 on a Win XP machine, using whatever version of 
dvipdfm that came with that installation (from a TeX-Live DVD).

--M


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 08:34:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Barr <barr at math.mcgill.ca>
To: Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>
Subject: Re: [texhax] Making URLs live

A minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{html}

\begin{document}

\begin{thebibliography}{}

\bibitem[Barr (1998)]{sepext} M. Barr, The separated extensional Chu
category (1998).  127--137.
\htmladdnormallink
{ftp://ftp.math.mcgill.ca/pub/barr/pdffiles/bbr.pdf}
{ftp://ftp.math.mcgill.ca/pub/barr/pdffiles/bbr.pdf}

\end{thebibliography}

Incidentaly, I tried changing ftp:// to http://, but the results were the 
same--no live links.

As I said, running the dvipdfm produced many error messages.  Here is a small 
sample:

Ignoring remaining special text following unknown PS operator: "SDict"

Remainder of line unparsed.
Current input buffer is -->begin [ /Producer (dvips + Distiller) /Title () /S.

<--

Unrecognized special ignored
Current input buffer is -->! /DvipsToPDF{72.27 mul Resolution div} def/PDFToD.

<--

Ignoring remaining special text following unknown PS operator: "SDict"

Remainder of line unparsed.
Current input buffer is -->begin /product where{pop product(Distiller)search{.

<--

and many, many more like that.

--M

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Lars Madsen wrote:

>  Quoting Michael Barr <barr at math.mcgill.ca>:
> 
> >  When I did that, it compiled fine, but neither the dvi files nor the 
> >  resultant pdf file (using dvipdfm, which gave a raft of error messages) 
> >  had a live link.
> > 
> >  --M
> > 
>
>  then please post a minimal example, hard to help without it
>
>  /daleif
>