Document Classes ⇒ url package doesn't like tildes and underscores?

[yostsa]

I'm trying to use web links in a document I'm prepping for an IEEE journal. The URLs show up ok in the PDF output with PDFLaTeX, but the links don't work. Here's a test file to demonstrate. testurl2.pdf (attached) is what I get.

\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{url}

\begin{document}
\url{http://mme.uwaterloo.ca/~mechatro/}

\url{http://mech-eng.curtin.edu.au/ugrad_mechatronic.cfm}
\end{document}

I thought maybe it was related to the IEEE document class, so I tried the following, with output as shown on testurl.pdf (attached):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{url}

\begin{document}
\url{http://mme.uwaterloo.ca/~mechatro/}

\url{http://mech-eng.curtin.edu.au/ugrad_mechatronic.cfm}
\end{document}

This time the links don't even seem to be formed, as nothing pops up when I hover over the URLs.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Ho yostsa,

it will work if you use the hyperref package.

Stefan

[yostsa]

Thanks so much...worked great...I had been avoiding hyperref because it has so many options to confuse me, but it's not so hard after all.