breaking URLs

breaking URLs

[Henri-Paul Indiogine]

Greetings!

My goal is to export an orgmode file to LaTeX and then compile to PDF.

My orgmode file contains many URLs. What is the best way to have them
break?   A simple URL in the orgmode file will not break.  if I place
the URL in  \url{my url}  it is exported as

\url{[[my url]] [[my url]]}   however the URL is nicely split to the
next line in the pdf.

if I use \href{my url} then the LaTeX file does not compile and gives
the following error message:


ERROR: pdfTeX error (ext1): \pdfendlink cannot be used in vertical mode.

--- TeX said ---
\close@pdflink ->\Hy@endcolorlink \pdfendlink


Any advise?

Thanks,
Henri-Paul


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Re: breaking URLs

[Bastien]

Hi Henri-Paul,

Henri-Paul Indiogine <hindiogine@gmail.com> writes:

> My goal is to export an orgmode file to LaTeX and then compile to PDF.
>
> My orgmode file contains many URLs. What is the best way to have them
> break?   A simple URL in the orgmode file will not break.  if I place
> the URL in  \url{my url}  it is exported as
>
> \url{[[my url]] [[my url]]}   however the URL is nicely split to the
> next line in the pdf.

I would welcome ideas/code to have more flexibility wrt the way urls 
are handled by the LaTeX exporter.

> if I use \href{my url} then the LaTeX file does not compile and gives
> the following error message:
>
>
> ERROR: pdfTeX error (ext1): \pdfendlink cannot be used in vertical
> mode.

This looks like a LaTeX related problem, and I'm not export enough to
help here.  I hope someone will be able to give you further advice.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: breaking URLs

[Henri-Paul Indiogine]

Hi Bastien!

2011/7/18 Bastien <bzg@altern.org>:
>> the URL in  \url{my url}  it is exported as
>>
>> \url{[[my url]] [[my url]]}   however the URL is nicely split to the
>> next line in the pdf.
>
> I would welcome ideas/code to have more flexibility wrt the way urls
> are handled by the LaTeX exporter.

If there would be a way of having the URL in orgmode be exported to
LaTeX as \url{my url} without the square brackets and the repetition
that would be all that is necessary for me.  I have no idea why the
LaTeX exporter add the brackets and duplicates the link.


>> ERROR: pdfTeX error (ext1): \pdfendlink cannot be used in vertical
>> mode.
>
> This looks like a LaTeX related problem, and I'm not export enough to
> help here.  I hope someone will be able to give you further advice.

Yes, that is a LaTeX issue.  I do not know the "hyperref" package well
enough to understand that problem.

Thanks,
Henri-Paul



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Re: breaking URLs

[Bastien]

Henri-Paul Indiogine <hindiogine@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Bastien!
>
> 2011/7/18 Bastien <bzg@altern.org>:
>>> the URL in  \url{my url}  it is exported as
>>>
>>> \url{[[my url]] [[my url]]}   however the URL is nicely split to the
>>> next line in the pdf.
>>
>> I would welcome ideas/code to have more flexibility wrt the way urls
>> are handled by the LaTeX exporter.
>
> If there would be a way of having the URL in orgmode be exported to
> LaTeX as \url{my url} without the square brackets and the repetition
> that would be all that is necessary for me.  I have no idea why the
> LaTeX exporter add the brackets and duplicates the link.

You want to customize `org-export-latex-href-format'.

This variable used to make two "%s" mandatory, to insert both the link
and its path.  You can now use only one "%s" if you want, since latest
git commit.

  (setq org-export-latex-href-format "\url{%s}") 

will do what you want.

Thanks for bringing this up!

-- 
 Bastien

Re: breaking URLs

[Bastien]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

>   (setq org-export-latex-href-format "\url{%s}") 

Of course this should be:

(setq org-export-latex-href-format "\\url{%s}") 

Best,

-- 
 Bastien