[texhax] help with making active url link

[Sam Albers]

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.

HTH,

Sam

2011/7/12 Thomas Schneider <schneidt at mail.nih.gov>

> Folks:
>
> Could someone please create a WORKING example of a link to
>
> http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html
>
> using LaTeX with conversion to PDF?
>
> I've tried
> \usepackage{url}
> and
> \usepackage{html}
>
> with
>
> \url{
> http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}
>
> or
>
> \htmladdnormallink
> {http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}
> {http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}
>
> along with many variations but the links never work correctly in Skim
> or Acrobat (after conversion to pdf).  They always break the url at
> the '~' and then of course the link points to the wrong place.  The
> documentation I've found such as
>
> http://www.pd.infn.it/TeX/doc/html/latex2html/Hnode1.html
>
> implies that this should have worked, but it doesn't.
>
> Tom
>
>  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
>  National Institutes of Health
>  National Cancer Institute
>  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
>  Molecular Information Theory Group
>  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
>  schneidt at mail.nih.gov
>  toms at alum.mit.edu (permanent)
>  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent)
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