Re: Way to put parentheses around displayed URLs?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Sue Kientz wrote:
I'm writing a manual, book class, using hyperref package which, when I 
generate the PDF (using pdflatex), gives me inline output that looks 
like (for example)

"... you can get xxx at the AVS website www.avs.com and yyy at the 
OpenDX website www.opendx.org...."

To create those website labels and URLs I used "Insert URL" of course. 
My problem is, the team I'm preparing this manual for wants parentheses 
around the URLs. If I use Insert URL dialog box to create those 
references, and put either ( ) or < > -type parentheses around the URLs, 
they no longer work when clicked on in the PDF. Is there something I can 
add to hyperref that will give me parentheses around all the URLs in my 
document? Or is there another solution, short of removing hyperref 
(since without it I can have the parens, but the links won't be clickable).

Thanks for any help. I'm using 1.4.3 on Mac OS X but sharing document 
with Linux users as well.

Sue Kientz

Typing ( and ) in the text, on either side of the URL inset, should work 
(does for me).  I think you could automate this by redefining 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your preamble, but it's way 
beyond my extremely modest TeX skills to do so.

/Paul