John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve's list left out one other URL-handling strategy: omit them altogether > if they aren't needed
Yes, that is often the best solution when hyperlinks aren't available. How does one do that in groff? I've tried three things so far: UR/UE, Lk, and pdfhref. The first two always put the URL in the text. Pdfhref has the opposite problem, it omits *everything*, including the link text on output devices that don't support hyperlinks. For example, the following outputs nothing in nroff, when I'd like it to say "adventure(6),": Input: .pdfhref W -D "man:/6/adventure" -A , -- adventure(6) > *@B 9:* If you're interested in PDF and hyperlinking, you might find this > <https://rawgit.com/Alhadis/Roff.js/web-demo/index.html> useful > <https://github.com/Alhadis/Roff.js>. :-) Thank you! Although the formatting seems slightly off, it is interesting and useful. For one thing, it lets me see that the groff on my system (1.22.4) is definitely not generating hyperlinks for Lk. Jan Stary (or anyone): would you please post the output of 'groff -Z -mdoc -Tpdf' for the example input which converted Lk to hyperlinks? I'd like to paste it into Alhadis's Roff.js and see where my groff is going wrong. I'm including my output below. --b9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INPUT: .Dd June 16, 2020 .Dt LINKS 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm links .Nd typeset links in mdoc documents .Sh DESCRIPTION The home page is .Lk http://www.frijid.net/madness/madness.html so go visit it now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B9's OUTPUT FROM groff -Z -mdoc -Tpdf x T pdf x res 72000 1 1 x init p1 x font 5 TR f5 s10000 V48000 H72000 md DFd tLINKS h1666 t(1) h123879 tBSD wh2500 tGeneral wh2500 tCommands wh2500 tManual h123879 tLINKS h1666 t(1) n12000 0 x font 36 TB f36 V96000 H72000 tN H79020 tAME n12000 0 x font 8 CB f8 V108000 H102000 tlinks wf5 h2500 Cem wh12500 ttypeset wh2500 tlinks wh2500 tin wh2500 tmdoc wh2500 tdocuments n12000 0 f36 V132000 H72000 tDESCRIPTION n12000 0 f5 V144000 H102000 tThe wh2500 thome wh2500 tpage wh2500 tis wf36 h2500 thttp://www H222950 t.frijid.net/madness/madness.html wf5 h2500 tso wh2500 tgo wh2500 tvisit wh2500 tit wh2500 tno H428830 tw H435400 t. n12000 0 V750000 H72000 tBSD h186635 tJune h2500 t16, wh2500 t2020 h201085 t1 n12000 0 x trailer V792000 x stop ----------------------------------------------------------------------