DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Re: Footnote and ulink's in Acrobat Reader PDFscreated by openjade

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif at vipe dot technion dot ac dot il>]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Doug du Boulay wrote:

> > > I'm not using any stylesheet (at least not now).
> > >
> > > > (define %bop-footnotes%
> > > >   ;; Make "bottom-of-page" footnotes?
> > > >   #t)
> > > >
> > > > When you have a hundred odd page chapter and the footnotes all turn up
> > > > at the end (and not at bop!), finding where the notes originate from is
> > > > rather difficult :-/
> > > >
> > > > > 2. <ulink>'s are not clickable or marked in blue.
> > > >
> > > > In case you missed it,  Kevin Dunn just posted a fix for that to the
> > > > list  a few hours ago!
> >
> > Actually, his fix does the opposite thing - it makes sure a ulink marked
> > with htmlonly is not rendered as a ulink in the PDF... And I want my
> > ulinks to be hyperlinks in the PDF as well.
> >
>
> Ah crap. I misunderstood the latex \url{} command!
> ok. did some experimenting.
> The following seems to work for me (only in print/tex/ you understand)
>
> (declare-flow-object-class formatting-instruction
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::formatting-instruction")
>
> (element ulink
>   (let ((type (attribute-string (normalize "type"))))
>     (if (equal? type "htmlonly")
>       (sosofo-append
>         (process-children)                ;; Wrote the text
>       )
>       (sosofo-append
>         (make formatting-instruction  data: "\\href{" )
>         (literal (attribute-string (normalize "url")) )
>         (make formatting-instruction  data: "}{" )
>         (process-children) ;; Wrote the text with its format (HTML anchor)
>         (make formatting-instruction  data: "}" ) )
>     )
>   )
> )
>
> Then a latex \href{url}{text}  seems to rendered in a beautiful shade of puke!
> no idea how to change that.
>

Works for me as well. However, URLs that include _ or - are appended a /
before each such element. This breaks a lot of my URLs.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish


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