{hyperref} is a package capable of producing hypertext links in documents. If your question is about cross-referencing in general, choose {cross-referencing}. If it's specifically about PDF features, consider to choose {pdf}.

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Gobbling an argument if it starts with #

My problem comes from pandoc and markdown, but it is not directly related with these tools, but instead with "customizing" the resulting pdf via some tex macro programming, so I think it is on topic. ...
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hyperlinking author names in biblatex when using \citeauthor

Using biblatex, the \citeauthor no longer is hyperlinked by default (as done in natbib). I am currently desperately looking for a way to make it a hyperlink ... any suggestion welcome
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How to label a word inside a paragraph?

The idea is to place \LBL{some_label_name} in a paragraph so that I can refer back to the particular point inside that paragraph where the \LBL was placed. I would like to define the macro for \LBL. ...
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How do I make an attached file display like a link?

I'm embedding an external file in my pdf with \usepackage{attachfile2} and\textattachfile[color=1 1 1]{description}{file.pdf}. How can I make the text look the same as it would if I had used the ...
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How to create a link in a pdf document to open a file using a specified application installed on the machine?

Assume I have a file on my machine at file:///c:\figure.bmp. From my pdf document, that is created by LaTeX using hyperref.sty, how can I open figure.bmp using mspaint.exe (microsoft built-in image ...
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Two colors in one hyperlink

As usual writing a few documents. As one can see having too much color and gloss in a document is never good. Therefore having boxes, and a myriad of colors in the hyperlinks is a bad idea. I really ...
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Creating a new environment with referencing

I'm trying to create a referenceable "system" environment that basically displays an equation with a custom counter. Then I want to reference the environment with autoref, so as to have "System (S1)" ...
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natbib and hyperref for (Author, Year) style produces two links

I am using the bioinfo style with natbib and hyperref, using the (Author, Year) style citations. pdflatex produces two link boxes for each citation: one for the Author and one of the Year. I would ...
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Beamer ignores citecolor from hyperref

How do I make citation links green in Beamer? It seems that Beamer ignores the hyperref option citecolor. I tried using the linkcolor option instead, but that affects all links (such as the link to ...
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mysterious error: \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink

I ran into the "mysterious" \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink error. According to http://www.tug.org/errors, "this happens when hyperref is used under pdftex and a ...
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Using \BeforePackage to load a package before hyperref does not work

I am using the lipics document class, which includes hyperref. I want to load the float package, which should be loaded before hyperref, without changing the document class. As suggested in this ...
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PDF bookmark going to the bottom of the previous page in case when caption header is on the top of a page

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{mwrep} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage[nodisplayskipstretch]{setspace} \setstretch{1.3} \usepackage[hidelinks,unicode,pdfencoding=auto]{hyperref} \usepackage[all]{hypcap} ...
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titlesec, hyperref, algorithm2e, and \appendix

When I use titlesec, hyperref, and algorithm2e together, sections after an \appendix are not numbered properly. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{titlesec} \usepackage{hyperref} ...
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Generate large document by pdfTeX, then break result into many PDF files while preserving links

This is the PDF file of a book I wrote: http://www.abstractmath.org/Handbook/handbook.pdf It takes a long time to download because it is a big file. I generated it using pdfLaTeX. Is there a way to ...
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Refer to labels of merged pdfs?

Do I need to use an extra program (pax) in order to bookmark labels of merged pdfs? For my application, I use KOMA-Script for the letter and moderncv for the CV. Therefore, I have to use two ...
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hyperlinks in biblatex

I'm making a biblatex style to solve an issue with the standard styles: if you have a reference with a doi field, it just prints the DOI number, with a clickable link if hyperref is enabled. But a ...
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How to enforce generation of PDF table of contents?

When I'm adding \tableofcontents to my document the PDF generated contains a nice list of sections/subsections on the left side, when viewed in Adobe Acrobat (I also use hyperref package). Everything ...
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What does “you have forgotten to use \caption” mean?

I'm stumped by an error I'm getting, when I try to render a Tufte-LaTeX document using hypcap and hyperref. For example, even a minimal document consisting of \documentclass[nohyper]{tufte-handout} ...
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Hyperref using the wrong language script for \url?

In a mixed language document, I try to use a URL. Here is minimal input demonstrating \documentclass{article} % compile with xelatex \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{polyglossia} ...
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How to style text in hyperref \url?

I want to set color, font and similar style attributes for the text in a \url from the hyperref package. How do I go about doing it? All I have found are comments saying that I probably don't want to ...
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Not using abbreviations with cleveref

I’d like to use the cleveref package but I don’t like that it inserts most names as abbreviations; for instance, it will print “… fig. 2.1 …” instead of “… figure 2.1 …”. Is there a way of changing ...
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How do I specify color in RGB using \hypersetup in hyperref?

How do I specify color in RGB using \hypersetup in hyperref? I know that this is the right way to do it with color names: \hypersetup{colorlinks,breaklinks, urlcolor=Maroon, ...
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Hyperref is loaded by the class, and I need to load packages that are supposed to be loaded before

I am using the lipics documentclass, which loads hyperref. Since I want my figures boxed, I added the following \usepackage{float} \floatstyle{boxed} \restylefloat{figure} The problem: I receive ...
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Recommended color for hyperlinks in a CV

I'm using the hyperref package, and I'm curious if there is a recommended color for hyperlinks. At the moment I am using urlcolor=BlueViolet which looks great onscreen, but when printed in b&w it ...
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How to return to original .pdf presentation after open a .pdf linked file?

I'm preparing a beamer presentation and I'm using hyperlinks for the first time; When I do something like: \href{name_file_to_open.pdf}{here I put a link to a figure which is working well} It works ...
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Conflict between babel, hyperref and appendix package

While writing my thesis I use the hyperref and appendix packages like in the little example below. test.tex \documentclass{book} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage[titletoc]{appendix} ...
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Set chapters at section level in the table of contents

I have \chapter{My first chapter} \chapter{My second chapter} \phantomsection \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendixes} \appendix \makeatletter \def\toclevel@chapter{1}\def\toclevel@section{2} ...
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how to put \neq in bookmark

The not equal sign ($\neq$) becomes equal sign(=) in hyperref's bookmark. I know that \texorpdfstring will work for this, but I can not find \textneq, maybe another name? Thanks in advance.
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Getting cleveref to mark all of “Lemma 1” as a hyperlink, not just “1”

I recently discovered the very nice cleveref package, and really like. Works much better than autoref (from hyperref) for me. There is only one thing I don't like: If, for example, the \cref command ...
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ToC fine, but wrong hierarchical structure of index

I'm using Springer's svmult template for an edited book. The header of each article inside the book looks like this: \title{Article's Title} \author{Author's Name} ...
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No hyper refs from citation to bibliography using BiBTeX, hyperref and harvard

I am trying to get internal hyperrefs from citation to the bibliography page. I am using BiBTeX, the harvard package, the hyperref package with optional [hidelinks]. The latter works fine to me on the ...
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Linking the section text to the TOC

I'd like the section headings in running text to link to their "line" in the Table of Contents so as to get "two-way" navigation, eg: a user looks in the Table of Contents for a section title, jumps ...
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TOC entries and labels for included PDF pages

I am embedding full pages from another PDF document (using the pdfpages package), but I would like to be able to declare my own section headings before each embedded document (for e.g. hyperlinking / ...
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Change colour of boxes surrounding links in hyperref

How can I achieve in the following MWE that the box surrounding the link gets coloured in blue? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{color} \usepackage[linkcolor=blue]{hyperref} \begin{document} ...
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Warning with footnotes: “name{Hfootnote.xx} has been referenced but does not exist”

First, some general details about my document: I'm using the scrbook class and the hyperref package. The document is split up into different source files (though this fact should not matter in this ...
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Reference plain text

Is there a way to reference just plain text with the \ref{} tag? I have a table with two columns. Each column has content which links to a different part below. The reference in the first column is ...
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How to disable links completely using hyperref package?

A have a LaTeX paper I want to submit to the EDAS system. EDAS doesn't want papers to have links and suggests to 'remove the hyperref package from your file'. However, if I do that, my compilation ...
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Is it possible to have back references after each chapter with a single main.bib file?

I'm using LaTeX + BibTeX to write my dissertation. I have one separate .tex file for each chapter. And I'll generate one bibliography for each chapter. But all the references are from the same file ...
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\autoref should call sections within the appendix “appendix” not “section”

I make use of autoref thoughout my now rather long document. I have an appendix with sections, though currently a small number, so changes could be made here. I want references in my document to ...
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Is it possible to use hyperref, subfigure, and memoir together?

I asked a question about how to use subfigure with memoir. I got some great tips, but now pdflatex is making all subfigure hyper-refs point to the first couple subfigures. It also gives me this ...
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Change format of hyperref generated PDF bookmarks

In a generic way, how can I change the format of bookmarks generated automatically by hyperref (or bookmark)? By generic, I mean the ability the customize the bookmark format for part, chapter, ...
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Extended reference for enumerate item using parent environment

I want to reference an item of an enumerate list by it's normal label, if we are still in that same enumeration and by an parent.item syntax if we are somewhere else in the document. For example: ...
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\pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink

I started using showkeys in one of my documents and see this error \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink A bit of google suggests that this "happens when hyperref is ...
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\ref with tight box surrounding the reference

How can I make the colored box around a reference appear completely tight? MWE: \documentclass[a4paper,twoside,openright,final,12pt]{book} \usepackage{etex} \usepackage[english]{babel} ...
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\part and tocloft

The following code was provided by Martin Scharrer in reply to a post in May 10. \documentclass{book} \usepackage[british]{babel} \usepackage[titles]{tocloft} \usepackage{tocloft} ...
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Hyperlinks in CV (Resume)

I am trying to write a CV (Resume) and a cover letter in LaTeX. I wish to add hyperlinks so that I can provide easy access to more information on areas I talk about. However, I feel that it might look ...
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Incompatibilities of cmap with fontenc/hyperref?

The following code doesn't compile (with pdflatex) \documentclass{article} \usepackage{cmap} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[pdfa=true]{hyperref} \begin{document} Hello. \end{document} ...
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Make hyperref's \autoref output in Bulgarian

I'm trying to use hyperref for references, but by default it outputs them in English like "chapter 2". According to Hyperref ignores \setdefaultlanguage from polyglossia, doing ...
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Autoref's inserted text has not the correct case

I'm using the \autoref tag which comes with the package hyperref for referencing my algorithms, figures etc. I read that it automatically adjusts the reference text's case, but it won't work with my ...
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Why hyperref doesn't like commands set via \let in section titles?

pdflatex returns on below document \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{hyperref} \let\code\texttt \begin{document} \section{\texttt{first}} \section{\code{second}} \end{document} following ...

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