Does this help? https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/581529/hyperlinks-to-a-separate-pdf-document
On Sun, Jan 1, 2023, 10:21 Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Back to markup languages: How do I get LaTex to create internal links? Or > external links either, for that matter? > > I now have a copy of LaTex with MiKTeX, and have been reading the > documentation and experimenting. I like what I see so far. But nowhere in > the documentation can I find any reference to internal hyperlinks. All > mentions of cross-references seem to mean simply text that says "see page > 12" or "...chapter 5" or "...figure 8.3". I'm all for that, but I want the > reader to be able to click on "see Section 5.13" and jump straight to it > If > I can't do it in LaTeX, it's a deal-breaker. It must be possible, I'm > sure, > but where is it documented? > > As I understand it: > - TeX is a basic typesetting program. > - LaTeX is an extension to TeX; I gather it overrides some TeX behaviors > and > adds others, by adding > packaged definitions written in TeX. > - LaTeX2e is a significant update to LaTeX. > - MiKTeX is an editor that simplifies writing LaTeX documents. > > After downloading and installing MiKTeX I discovered that it didn't have > much in the way of LaTeX documentation, so I hunted around on the web. > I've > read: > > - Most of "LaTeX / A document preparation system / User's guide and > reference manual" by Leslie Lamport; looks like a document that was scanned > and then run through OCR to translate it to PDF. No PDF bookmarks. > > - Some of "LaTeX2e for authors" and "New LATEX methods for authors > (starting > 2020)", both of which seem to be more in the way of summaries than manuals. > > - I skimmed through "MikTeX Manual / Revision 4.6" by Christian Schenk. > This seems to focus on commands that I suppose are executed from the DOS > window, so I didn't pay close attention; that may be where I'm going wrong. > > - "A short manual for TeXworks (lowering the entry barrier to the TeX > world)" by Alain Delmotte, Stefan Löffler, and others; I haven't looked at > this one yet, believing it to be irrelevant to my question. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Do you know what constitutes a "hate crime"? Put your thinking caps on. > What tools do we need to determine whether a crime was motivated by hate or > prejudice? Answer: We need thought police. -from "See, I Told You So" by > Rush Limbaugh */ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
