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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Adding hyperlinks


At first, LaTeX was used to produce high-quality prints on paper. Since the output was device independent from the beginning, the results can be viewed on screens, tablets, and smartphones as well.

With electronic publishing, we get access to very handy features. Most importantly, hyperlinks, which allow us to easily navigate within a document. In this recipe, we will deal with providing hyperlinks in the PDF.

How to do it...

We will use the hyperref package for providing hyperlinks in the PDF. It provides a user-friendly interface to access PDF features, such as hyperlinks. You can test it with our examples from Chapter 1, The Variety of Document Types, by performing the following steps:

  1. Open the book example from the first chapter in your editor.

  2. At the end of the preamble, add this line for loading the hyperref package:

    \usepackage{hyperref}
  3. Compile at least twice so that LaTeX can process the data in the .aux file written by the hyperref package.

  4. Take a PDF viewer, such as...

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