When trying to create a list of weblinks using
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item \href{www.washingtonpost.com}
\item \href{www.newyorktimes.com}
\item \href{www.lemonde.fr}
\item \href{www.guardian.co.uk}
\item \href{www.spiegel.de}
\item \href{www.bbc.co.uk/news}
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
I run into an error stating \pdfendlink cannot be used in vertical mode. What is a better approach to achieve this, or how can I modify mine?
\href takes two arguments, \href[options]{URL}{text} where the first is a full URL and the second the link text, and formats the text as normal text (see http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/doc/hyperref-doc.pdf for details). So you can fix your problem by adding a full URL in the first argument and adding a second argument, i.e. \href{http://www.washingtonpost.com}{www.washingtonpost.com}.
But the easiest way to fix it may be to replace \href with \url which formats the URL in typewriter font (I've added the protocol for completeness):
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item \url{http://www.washingtonpost.com}
\item \url{http://www.newyorktimes.com}
\item \url{http://www.lemonde.fr}
\item \url{http://www.guardian.co.uk}
\item \url{http://www.spiegel.de}
\item \url{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news}
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
\href formats the link as normal text, while \url uses a typewriter font.
\urls via \urlsytle{<option>}
\href to format the link as typewriter font?
Apr 11, 2012 at 20:57
hyperref has a configuration option for this, but you could define a new command like \newcommand{\tthref}[2]{\href{#1}{\texttt{#2}}}, which will take two arguments (like \href): \tthref{<URL>}{<link text>}.
\href{www.washingtonpost.com}{washington post}