Aloha Thomas.
[...]
>>>> + if I put a plain text link in a sidenote (like
>>>> "\sidenote{see http://AgileManifesto.org}"), it doesn't get
>>>> automagically converted to a link as it is in the text body. It appears
>>>> as normal text and without the \url{...}, so it doesn't look and doesn't
>>>> act as a link.
> Tufte Org Mode uses the Org mode footnote mechanism to make the
> sidenotes. When I placed a link in an Org mode footnote and then
> exported with Tufte Org Mode, I get a clickable link in the resulting
> pdf file. [...]
Because of some talk in the tufte-latex list, I may have a (too much)
old version of tufte-latex, so I'm working on this and I'll be back when
I have more information, probable on that list that is more specific
that this one.
In any case, thank you very much for your attention... :)
Best regards.
--
eduardo mercovich
Donde se cruzan tus talentos
con las necesidades del mundo,
ahí está tu vocación.