From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: [patch] Add footnote when exporting links in LaTeX Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 10:31:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87zj0lcryn.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87fv2e7zzo.fsf@gmx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcVXa-0001GE-Ax for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:31:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcVXU-0007xh-9t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:31:42 -0400 Received: from mail-am1on0109.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([157.56.112.109]:26902 helo=emea01-am1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcVXU-0007wf-23 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:31:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87fv2e7zzo.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:36:59 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Thursday, 17 Sep 2015 at 00:36, Rasmus wrote: > Lars Tveito writes: >> When exporting to LaTeX, links are exported using \href. These are >> completely invisible if the document is printed out. I consider this a >> problem. [...] >> I think a good solution is to add a footnote with the link, in addition >> to the \href. I've added a patch with this (tiny) change. > > We shouldn't hardcode this behavior. Indeed we should not! I use LaTeX (beamer) to create slides which have links I can click on during lectures. I would hate having footnotes for all of these... However, I can see the validity of Lars's use case so it would be nice to have an option for this. My approach is to put the link in a footnote directly and not in the text if it's a document I intend to print... -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-234-g8c85c9