Text Formatting ⇒ <a href> equivalent in TeX?

[csmgroup]

I use \url{} for linking whatever necessary, and it's pretty useful. The problem is that if the link is long, it's pretty ugly.

Is there any equivalent of <a href="goody">A</a> in LaTeX? I mean, even though I show 'A' in pdf file, the user can click it to visit "goody".

[gmedina]

Hi,

try the \href command from the hyperref package. A little example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[breaklinks=true]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\href{http://www.latex-community.org/}{L-C}
\end{document}
 
 
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[localghost]

An according command is described in Section 4 (Additional user macros, p. 12ff) of the hyperref manual.


Thorsten

[frabjous]

The hyperref package provides the command \href{URL}{text}.

EDIT: Ouch. Double ninja-ed.

[csmgroup]

\href{}{} works fine with me. Thanks a lot.