[r6rs-discuss] pdf file should have clickable links

[Trent Buck]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:45:56AM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> The draft pdf files are very old-style "passive".
> The toc of contents, index, and cross-references should
> all be clickable to ease navigation.  Clicking a URL should
> bringup a web browser window.This is supported by modern pdf
> tools and pdf readers.  (I tested acroread and evince.)
> 
> Such links can be generated using pdftex or pdfetex.
> (These are standard on Fedora Core 6, so presumably
> on the TeX distributions.)  I don't know the details
> of what needs to be done.

From memory, one essentially just adds

    \use{hyperref}

to the prelude (assuming LaTeX).  Using pdflatex should then generate
a PDF ToC, as well as making cross-references (e.g. the on-paper ToC,
the index) clickable.  References outside the document need an extra
\href{} around them, e.g.

    http://foo.org/bar ==> \href{http://foo.org/bar}

Googling for "latex hyperref pdf" turns up more information.
-- 
Trent Buck, Student Errant
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