>>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:54:00 -0400 >>From: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Timothy Reaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: URL question (also links, xref) >> >>Timothy Reaves wrote: >>> Paul A. Rubin wrote: >>>> Timothy Reaves wrote: >>>>> If I insert an URL, and make the URL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and >>>>> make >>>>> the name My Name, when I generate a PDF, the URL is displayed too. >>>>> Can I set it up to only display the Name field? >>>> [deleted Paul's solution] >>> Yes, that is what I had done as well. But this makes me think that >>> the URL as supported by LyX is useless. Not just because of the >>> e-mail, but cross references as well. >>> >>> I want to have arbitrary links in my document. So for example, I >>> might have somewhere in my document 'see the section on blah', and >>> blah would be linked to that section. When I use Label & Reference, >>> it kinda works, but inserts a number at the reference. I want the >>> text to be the link. I can do this using the hyperref module. >>> >>> So am I not understanding something? >>Perhaps. The url.sty package isn't intended for the sort of use for >>which you are trying to use it. Its purpose is to allow you to use URLs >>in a document without running into line-break problems, the issue being >>that URLs can be (i) long and (ii) spaceless. Indeed, the documentation >>describes the \url command as simply a special form of \verb. So, all of >>that said, hyperref is indeed what you need here and, at present, LyX >>has no special support for it.
I've posted an enhancement request, see http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2919 about external hyperlinks, I did not comment about internal targets, which should work. I've suggested to use the Generate hyperlink button, which is local to the link, but maybe I should have mentioned the possibility of a general setting: as the printed version requires the url to be there, users would like to have it all with url printed, or all with anchors. Personnaly, I use html2latex, which allows to have the url in footnote when printed and under an anchor in HTML, but I guess this can't really be interfaced in LyX. As for turning typographical croos-referencing automatically into internal target referencing, currenly nothing exists to describe the anchor (unless prettyref does it ? never used it myself). -- Jean-Pierre
