[texhax] Making URLs live (fwd)

Michael Barr barr at math.mcgill.ca
Mon Aug 3 01:01:39 CEST 2009


dvipdfm is independent of the dvi viewer.  So it seems that neither yap 
nor dvipdfm supports live links.  I will try pdflatex.

--M

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Steve Schwartz wrote:

> 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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