moderncv : \homepage - can't handle a tilde

Question

I'm using the latest version of moderncv from CTAN. When I set :

\homepage {homepage: my.homepage.url/~username/}

The tilde doesn't show up. So I tried:

\usepackage{textcomp}
\homepage {homepage: my.homepage.url/{\texttildelow}username/}

But.. that causes an infinite loop:

Package hyperref Warning: Option `baseurl' has already been used,
(hyperref)                setting the option has no effect on input line 54.


Package hyperref Warning: Option `pdfpagemode' has already been used,
(hyperref)                setting the option has no effect on input line 54.


Package hyperref Warning: Option `pdfstartpage' has already been used,
(hyperref)                setting the option has no effect on input line 54.

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
\font@name ->
         \U/mvs/m/n/14.4 
l.55 \maketitle

Any Ideas how to fix this?

Answer 1

\homepage {homepage: my.homepage.url/\textasciitilde username/}

should work.

Answer 2

This happens because this class first saves the \homepage argument away and then uses it inside hyperrefs \href macro.

The ~ is then already expanded to an unbreakable space and \href doesn't like macros like \texttilde... inside the URL part.

Here a small patch of the internally used \httplink macro:

\renewcommand*\httplink[2][]{{\urlstyle{sf}\expandafter\href#2}}
\homepage{{http://mydomain/~user}{homepage: mydomain/{\texttildelow}user}}                % optional, remove the line if not wanted

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old:

Try to use the \url macro from the hyperref package to format the address correctly:

\usepackage{hyperref}
%...

\homepage {homepage: \url{http://my.homepage.url/~username/}}