[texhax] Making URLs live (fwd)

[Steve Schwartz]

Michael,

For what it's worth, I tried your minimal example on my linux system
(texlive2008) - the html.sty is html.sty,v 1.39 2001/10/01 which is what
came with my linux distribution I think.

I tried various things:

pdflatex
latex + kdvi viewer
dvipdf
dvipdfm

ALL gave live links except dvipdfm. It is possible whatever dvi viewer
you use doesn't support links. 

Steve

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 15:54 +0100, Michael Barr wrote:
> 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
> >
> 
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