On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Jambunathan K wrote:

> "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
>
>> On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> "Thomas S. Dye" wrote:
>>>> The manual is silent about what happens to external links on export
>>>> to
>>>> LaTeX. I'm finding that internal links export to HTML and work as
>>>> expected
>>>> there. In the pdf file via LaTeX the internal links are colored,
>>>> but aren't
>>>> active. Is this the expected behavior or am I possibly doing
>>>> something that
>>>> disables the links on their way to pdf?
>>>
>>> Internal links always worked for me in PDF, though they more
>>> tend(ed) to go
>>> to the page rather than really placing me on the section (like what
>>> you have
>>> in your browser).
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> - Which PDF reader do you use?  That could influence...
>>>
>>> - Do you want me to test some example file?  If yes, send it here,  
>>> or
>>> privately to me -- attention for delays due to spammotel, though.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Seb
>>
>> Thanks Seb,
>>
>> It doesn't appear to be a reader problem.  The links fail in skim and
>> acrobat.
>>
>> I'm getting this in the LaTeX output:
>> \href{sec-2_5}{package loading part}
>>
>> If I read the hyperref documentation correctly, then I think it  
>> should
>> be:
>> \hyperref[sec-2_5]{package loading part}
>>
>> If I'm right about what the link should look like in LaTeX, and there
>> is no obvious reason why I'm not getting it in the LaTeX export, then
>> I'll work on finding a minimal example.
>>
>
> Play with this (for now).
>
> ,----[ C-h v org-export-latex-hyperref-format RET ]
> | org-export-latex-hyperref-format is a variable defined in `org- 
> latex.el'.
> | Its value is "\\href{%s}{%s}"
> |
> | Documentation:
> | A printf format string to be applied to hyperref links.
> | The format must contain two %s instances.  The first will be  
> filled with
> | the link, the second with the link description.
> |
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----
>
> This is a regression. release-7.01h is good. HEAD is bad. I get the
> following line with release-7.01h.
>
>  Links to \hyperref[sec-1]{Heading1}
>
> Jambunathan K.
>

Aloha Jambunathan K.,

Very many thanks for this information.  I have Org-mode version  
7.01trans (release_7.01h.880.g7531f).  I take it the problem I'm  
having is due to a relatively recent change to Org-mode.  If there is  
anything I can do to help isolate the problem, please let me know.

All the best,
Tom