{urls} is about handling URLs in (La)TeX documents, commonly by using the \url macro provided by the {url} and {hyperref} packages.

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Bibtex: How to input accentuation on url?

I am trying to use bibtex to output the url from a reference, but it's not working because the url has accentuation, just like below: url = ...
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Several nameref and page margins

I've been struggling with nameref for some time now. I am trying to make them respect the available space there is on a line, but I can't seem to find how. The LaTeX code is the following: ...
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Automatic line breaking of camel case within \url

I would like to break camel case text that is handed to the \url{} macro of url.sty. The solution here does not work for text in captions, so it seems, ans in particular does not work for \url{}. Is ...
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Opening a PDF URL with tilde character link using Google Chrome [closed]

I am using hyperref to create an url with tilde character link in a pdf document, as shown below: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} ...
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Problem with use \url - metric (TFM) file not found [closed]

I try to write an article in LaTeX using texmaker on ubuntu. I use many packages including: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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Problems with url alignment

I would like to align some urls: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{book} \usepackage{url} \begin{document} Figure 1:\; \url{my first url} \url{my second url} \end{document} How ...
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how to delete extra line in amsplain-url_bst.bst after URL [closed]

I use amsplain-url.bst for the bibliographic format. When a reference has a URL it adds an extra line before the end of the reference. I want to delete this extra line:
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Macro for writing DOI with optional link text

The doi package has a neat \doi command, that transforms a doi string into \href{http://dx.doi.org/<the doi>}{doi:<the doi>}. The uri package has something similar with the help of the url ...
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Bad formatting of Bibliography

I tried two ways to format a bibliography with lots of URL's: Without 'RaggedRight' With 'RaggedRight' In the first case, there are wide spaces between words in some items, that a really not ...
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Invoking biblatex macro for “(visited on <date>)”

Can I invoke some biblatex commands or macros in order to automatically generate a string like this: (visited on 04/01/2013) I have this outside of a \cite command in a footnote, but would like to ...
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Inserting a single hyperlink in LaTeX

I want to insert a single URL that is clickable in the resulting PDF file I produce, but when I use the hyperref package, that turns every use of \ref, the table of contents, etc. into a hyperlink in ...
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Problems with URL's size

I would like to change the font size of the URLs in my latex document. I did: \begin{document} ... \usepackage{url} Figure 1: \scriptsize{\url{my url}}\\ Figure 2: \scriptsize{\url{my url}} ... ...
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How do you put spaces in \url? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Obey spaces with URL package (path command) How to prevent \url from removing the spaces in a path? The url I want to put in \url{} is ...
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How to fill an underfull box in footnote with url?

Could someone help to correct the warning I get related to an underfull box with the following code? I have tried \hfill, hspace*{\hfill} etc with no luck. \documentclass[twocolumn,draft]{svjour3} ...
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Creating a URL downloading command to be used with e.g. \includegraphics

We were just talking about an idea that may be a little further out there. Would it be possible to patch URL support into graphicx.sty or is there a package that would support this on a wider scale (I ...
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Long URL in Bibliography section exceeds the bounds of the page

I have an external bib where I put a reference to an external URL. @misc{myreference, author = {The Author}, title = {The Title}, howpublished = ...
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Citing webpage with ~ in address

Here is the exact webpage I want to cite: \bibitem{BrouwerSRG}A. Brouwer. Strongly Regular Graphs table http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/graphs/srg/srgtab1-50.html \filbreak Now, if I ...
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Special character in url link

I would like to insert the following text: \href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_coups_d'état}{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_successful\_coups\_d'état} However, that ...
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different font while using url

I'm having troubles while using the url command in my bibliography. I mean: 1) \bibitem{[8]} ...
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Adding space in an electronic BibTeX

I am using JabRef to create my references. I want to put a note for the for the access date (for electronic references) Here is an example: @ELECTRONIC{qwest, url = ...
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URL package installed but cannot be found by pdflatex [closed]

I recently installed a full version of TeXLive 2012 (around 3.2 GB installation). Following is a simple LaTeX code that I am unable to compile: \listfiles \documentclass{article} ...
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Unable to install url package using tlmgr [closed]

I recently installed latest version of TeXLive and am using tlmgr utility to manage and update all my packages. When I try to load a simple document containing a URL address, I get following error: ...
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How to unset a toggle in biblatex? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Biblatex: Get rid of ISSN, URLs and DOIs in references The standard.bbx file sets toggles for doi,url and eprint that are being checked later by the doi+eprint+url macro. ...
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Prohibiting line break at specific point of url while using \url command

I have a \url{some.edu/page} that breaks just before .edu I would like to have it break at the / at worst, or not at all. How can I do that?
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URL field inherited despite separate cross reference item

The following code produces a list of references that contains the URL three times. I use crossreferencing to save space. Is there a way to get rid of the URL in the entries that refere to a main ...
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URL with % won't display in bibliography [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: URL for “article” (and other) entries of the bib file? URL of cited web site in bibliography I am trying to put a long URL into my bibliography. In the preamble I have ...
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Special characters in bib entries using biber/biblatex [closed]

I'm having problems to get URLs with special characters in biber/biblatex to work \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[swedish]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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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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Mark text as plain text

When inserting a URL in a footnote \footnote{http://www.bmu-klimaschutzinitiative.de/de/projekte_nki?p=1\&d=450, gesichtet am 21.10.2012} there are two errors that missing $ signs have been ...
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\homepage - can't handle a colon in moderncv [closed]

I have been trying to use the \homepage directive of moderncv. While the URL specified in the \homepage is rendered perfectly in the PDF, the colon does not seem to take effect. When I click on the ...
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Unwanted numbers added to a url in a bibitem

I face a weird problem. I use \url{} (URL package) to specify a URL in a bibitem. After compiling my LateX file, the URL is well displayed in my PDF file. But, when I drag the mouse over the URL, the ...
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Manually breaking a long URL (in the bibliography)

I have a large bibliography in which a few items are causing underfull hboxes due to a long URL. Answers to similar questions suggest a number of global options for fixing this; e.g. Forcing ...
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Multiple doi, url, and eprint entries in biblatex

I'm in the process of writing a biblatex style file to support the on-line journal Theory of Computing. The journal has been using BibTeX for years, and I am looking forward to the flexibility ...
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How to prevent \url from removing the spaces in a path?

The following code \documentclass{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents*}{"a b c.tex"} one two \end{filecontents*} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} ...
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Exporting database with Zotero so urls will be exported to bibtex with \url command

When exporting a database or collection within Zotero to BibTeX, a URL will not be enclosed with the \url command, thus rendering links not clickable in Lyx when hyperref enabled. Is it possible to ...
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When I include url on a line, it shows up left-justified instead of centered

If I use the url package and include a url on a line inside the centering environment, it shows up left-justified instead of centered. How can I make it centered? MWE: \documentclass{article} ...
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show urls only for webpages using bibtex and urlbst

I used urlbst package to modify a .bst file for URL inclusion. All worked good, but if I want the url only for the webpages, how should i modify the .bst? From what I read the response should be in ...
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Disable urls only for particular citation item types in biblatex? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: URL field only for certain reference types with biblatex By default, biblatex entries include the url in the bibliography, if it's available. This is fine for some item ...
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Missing $ inserted issue

Trying to get my dissertaion sorted (due in a few hours) and I keep getting this error: ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ l.190 ... pp. 225--236, ...
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bibliography problem large spacing

@booklet{Ph4, author = {Panchenko, D.}, title = {Statistics for Applications / Gamma Distribution}, year = {2006}, url = ...
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Citing many long URLs (shortening and numbering)

In my thesis I have to quote a lot from a single weblog. The URLs are mostly of this structure: blogname.providername.com/stories/123456 ...
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How to break long URLs using common hyphenation but adding a line feed indicator?

I saw several questions like this one that request a solution for breaking apart URLs. I wonder if it is possible to hyphenate the words in a URL as it happens in normal text (i.e., breaking apart ...
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How to automatically trim a URL up to a certain length measured from the right?

Current condition A long URL makes a bad look as follows. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xcolor,listings} \lstset { language={[LaTeX]TeX}, backgroundcolor=\color{yellow!50}, ...
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Get rid of box around URL with hyperref [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks Let's say we have document with url: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{hyperref} ...
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unwanted pagebreak in footnote

I'm trying to reference a long URL in a footnote. I'm usig hyperref-package (which loads automatically the url-package). \usepackage[unicode=true, ...
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How to tell LaTeX to automatically remove envelopping curly braces in a string to use with biblatex?

I am using biblatex together with a bibliography manager Referencer. I want to use the url field of the bib file to link to the page. However, Referencer has urls of the form url = {{ http://... }} ...
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Best practices for LaTeX code in org-mode-beamer (especially url links)

I'm using org-mode to produce beamer presentations. I'm having trouble figuring out the best way of including Latex snippets. As far as I can tell, there are two ways of signalling to org-mode to ...
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How to write properly an accent in a web address?

I'm trying to write a hyperlink for a DjVu document that includes Latin accent, but for some reason, it only displays properly for the PDF one. Specifically, on my list of references (bibliography), I ...
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Biblatex clear URL field for entries in a certain category

Can you please help me to process biblatex entries. I want to... Print separate bibliographies for online and offline entries Both @online entries and @misc entries with a url-field should go into ...
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How to include a # sign in a url using the \endnotes package

I am trying to include a URL in my Latex document which contains a pound sign, #, in it. If I run it without escaping the # sign, I get an error. If I escape it, then the escape character is ...