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What does the hyperref option hypertexnames do?

The Manual of hyperref states that hypertexnames: use guessable names for links. What does this mean? What are the consequences of using this option?
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Is there a poisonous interaction between memoir, hyperref, and hyperxmp?

In another, now rather confused, question, I'm struggling to get copyright information into a PDF produced by memoir. The investigations so far have led to this problematical MWE: % !TEX TS-program ...
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Defining custom sectioning commands

In a document of mine (scrbook class) I have to describe several different scenarios as part of a subsection. I originally used \subsubsection for each which are not numbered with the default setting ...
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Is it possible to draw a nonprinting box around text, as in the hyperref package?

I would like to be able to draw a box that shows up on in the PDF but does not print, just like the boxes around links that are made using the hyperref package. I would like to put a minipage ...
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How can I convince hyperref and xindy to play together nicely?

I'm using xindy to generate indexes for a manual that gets translated into multiple languages. Unfortunately, hyperref and xindy don't like to play nicely together. I found some older mailing list ...
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hyperref links break with babel + hebrew (or right-to-left language)

It's time for Eyal's babel + Hebrew incompatibility of the week. And this time: hyperref... :-( Basically, you can't get links with right-to-left text. It's about the direction rather than the ...
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Where can I find out what various hyperref options do?

Where can I find a description of hyperref options, deeper than the one of the manual? I do not understand the meaning of several options. For instance, what is "redefines LaTeX internals" (option ...
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Hyperref Link Spans a Pagebreak, Looks Ugly

I'm using hyperref for links in pdflatex and I have the following problem: when a bibliography citation spans across a page-break (which usually occurs with long author names), then an additional ...
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No section numbers, but still have PDF bookmarks with hyperref

I have a document that has many sections. I don't want section numbers to show up in the document, but I do want the sections to show up automagically as bookmarks in the PDF using the hyperref ...
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How to insert an image that also acts as a link

Can an image be included in TeX so that the resulting PDF is clickable leading to a reference?
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biblatex-apa and hyperref: right parenthesis not part of link for \textcite

I use biblatex-apa citation style. I also use hyperref with colour links, rather than ugly coloured boxes. When I use \textcite the author name and year are both part of the link, but the right ...
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\ref should use enumerate label name

I have done this: \begin{enumerate} \renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\textbf{S.\theenumi}} \item a \item \label{l} b \item c. goto \ref{l} \end{enumerate} The \ref just uses the enumerate number. But I ...
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How to use different colors for different \href commands?

I have two different \href{}{} links and I want each to be a different color. In the example below they will both be blue, how can I make each link have a different color? \documentclass{article} ...
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Linking a text to a page (by page number)

I need to link a text to a page (by page number). I do not want to use labels, but simply to specify the text and the page number. Can I do that with hyperref?
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pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (nam e{page.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored

I get the following warning pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (nam e{page.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored when compiling the following document: ...
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Hyperref - Token not allowed [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Hyperref warning - Token not allowed in a PDF string The following code: \subsection{The classes $\mathcal{L}(\gamma)$} generates the errors: Package hyperref ...
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Underlined links with hyperref possible?

How can I have underlined links with hyperref? That means how to configure hyperref not to change the color of the printout but use underlined active links which are completely transparent in print. ...
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highlights path sequentially BUT in order of clicking

I have been looking for a possibly difficult answer to a simple question. I would like to be able to highlight paths on a TikZ picture. I would like to highlight these paths by clicking on them and at ...
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Hyperref jumps to the wrong equation if the equation has a \tag and cleveref is used

The problem I'm writing a document where all of my equations are labeled, not by numbers, but by names, which I provide with amsmath's \tag command. I also use cleveref for ease of ...
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Option unicode=true with hyperref

Is there a drawback when using the option unicode=true with the package hyperref and the engines PDFTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX? In other words, can a portable document always have ...
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Box around raggedright links spanning two lines extends to right margin

I need to use boxed links and ragged right text. The problem is that when a link spans two lines, though the link is broken correctly (when using pdflatex) the box around the linked text extends until ...
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Getting those %#!^& signs in the footnote!

This is basically an expanded version of part of Control command arguments . The original questioner there wants to redefine \href so that all the links end up in foonotes (rather than in the main ...
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hyperref causes problem with doc.sty

Try the following code. Without hyperref everything is fine and there’s the right entry in the index. With hyperref this entry disappears. (The codeline entries which are not shown here ar not touched ...
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Hyperref: Scandinavian characters (æø) don't work in \url, hyperlink is wrong

Background A while ago it became possible to use the letters æ, ø and å in URLs, and some websites, like the encyclopaedia Store Norske Leksikon, has made use of this. Recently, a question was ...
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Link formatting: colors, underlines in moderncv

Following the excellent advice in this site, I have started using moderncv for writing the new version of my CV. Unfortunately, after converting to PDF, my http links work (clicking on them leads to ...
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Lost labels using intertext with varioref and hyperref

I have a problem using \intertext together with \vref when hyperref is also used. Consider the following minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath, varioref} ...
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How to force hyperref to reference only \cite and not \citeauthor or \citeyear?

I would like hyperref to make links only when I use \cite and not with \citeyear and \citeauthor. Here is an example : \documentclass{article} \usepackage[numbers]{natbib} \usepackage{hyperref} ...
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Making endnotes clickable links with hyperref

I would like to use the endnotes package, hyperref and biblatex together to have links to my endnotes. Here is a MWE that shows how the links don't show up: \begin{filecontents}{testbib.bib} ...
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How to disable initial view of PDF bookmarks panel?

The hyperref package automatically creates a list of PDF bookmarks, and it configures the PDF to have the initial view display the bookmarks panel, at least in Foxit Reader and Acrobat. To see the ...
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Option to break urls with carriage-return symbol?

There are several ways to get long, uncooperative URLs to line-break in LaTeX. If you're using pdfLaTeX, then the hyperref package can break them across lines for you, roughly after any /. If you ...
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Create a register of persons with references

To Create a register of persons with biblatex seems to be much more complicate then i expected. How can i create nice a register of persons semiautomatic with \ref? Lets assume i have 20 persons ...
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Page header becomes part of link when an \autoref hyperlink spans pages

I am using MikTeX 2.9 on Windows. I am using, among other packages, hyperref in my MASc thesis and I just noticed something strange. I have an \autoref to a table in a paragraph and the link spans ...
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Xindy: Encapsulations for Index

Well, I struggled to improve my index generated by Xindy. I tried to add several entries with bold page numbers by using \index{...|textbf} as classified in latex-loc-fmts.xdy, without any success. ...
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Make backrefs invisible in hardcopy

Is there a way to make bibliography back-references display and hyperlink in a PDF file but not print in a hard copy. When I use \usepackage[colorlinks=false,backref=page]{hyperref} I get a red ...
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How to change the PDF producer metadata with XeLaTeX on MikTeX

I tried to change the PDF Producer of the generated PDF file with XeLaTeX, but it always be "MikTeX-xdvipdfmx (0.7.8)", if the PDF is generated with pdflatex, it will change as I wish, does anybody ...
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Which package should I load first: hyperref or bookmark?

I came to this question after looking for a way to explicitly end a \part (as described in this question: ...
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Customize PDF bookmarks

I have the following document (this is an example): \documentclass{book} \usepackage[bookmarks=true,pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref} \title{Sample document} \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} ...
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How to use nameref to refer to a section without including the output of any commands in the title of that section?

Background (simplified) I'm using the todonotes package to add todonotes to sections in my documents. I have created a macro to add the todonotes to sections such that they appear alongside the ...
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How to change the color of \href links… for real

I would like web links generated by the \href command to be colored in my Beamer presentation. Passing the colorlinks option to hyperref leads to navigation links within the PDF receiving (default, ...
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Hide subsubsections in toc, but show in PDF

I am hiding subsubsections in my TOC because they got too many. But I would like them to show up in the navigation when viewing the document as PDF anyway. Is there any way to do this, and how? ...
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using \nameref only if there is a name

I am referencing some sections (actually those will be custom defined in the end) by number, type and name. But it happens that there is no name. So I want to leave it out. How can I test for that? A ...
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Substitute italic ampersand with alternative ampersand in Linux Libertine O

Based in this answer I want to create a command \amper that uses the alternative ampersand of Linux Libertine O and leaves the regular \& alone. The problem with the MWE below is that hyperref ...
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options for appearance of links in hyperref

If I use \usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref} I get colored links for \cite (not good for printing or even viewing) but table of content looks fine. If I use ...
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Biblatex, authoryear-comp, and hyperlinks

In answer to this question, Audrey offered an answer that works great with the authoryear option. (Context: I'm trying to get the hyperlink in citations to include the name of the author, and not ...
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Hyperref + \url: long URL with dashes won't break

I've discovered a rather weird behaviour of PdfLaTeX. In this example \documentclass{article} \usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref} \begin{document} ...
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I cannot get a (properly) underlined hyperlink in blue

First I just ignored the hyperref package and just wanted something that 'looked' like a link: \underline{\color{Blue} http://soundcloud.com} but I end up getting an underline about 3mm below the ...
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Embedding printer settings in pdf

I want to produce a pdf that includes settings for a predefined profile, like the the printing on both side of a piece of paper, is that possible? If a pdf does not provide this kind of feature, you ...
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Partial italic text in PDF bookmarks

In my LaTeX file I've got some chapter titles with partial italicised text. With the hyperref package, I get the required bookmarks, etc. but the style for these partial italicised text disappears. ...
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hyperref: pdftitle and wrong character encoding [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Using non ASCII characters in author names and titles within hyperref pdfinfo \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{mwrep} \usepackage{polski} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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Problem with use of '#' in custom \href command

I'm having a similar problem as described here: How to use \newcommand for \href? However, I want to specify an URL with an # sign in it. I know that I should escape the # by \#, but as we have many ...

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