How to get an href with mailto to function properly in a pdf with an underscore in the email address?

sherifffruitfly

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Oct 28, 2009, 3:35:21 AM10/28/09

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Hi all,

I've googled this up, and the only apparently relevant tip I see it to
put a whack in front of the underscore. I don't see that it makes any
difference - the following snippets all result in the same pdf for me:

\href{mailto:see\_d\_j...@yahoo.com}{see\_d\_j...@yahoo.com}
\href{mailto:see_...@yahoo.com}{see\_d\_j...@yahoo.com}

Both of them result in a mailto link for "@yahoo.com", which clearly
is not what I want.

How do I get "see_...@yahoo.com" as a mailto link in my latex
compiled into pdf?

I'm using miktex2.8, and winedt 5.6

Thanks for any hints!

Joseph Wright

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Oct 28, 2009, 4:05:54 AM10/28/09

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{underscore,hyperref}
\begin{document}
\href{mailto:see_...@yahoo.com}{see_...@yahoo.com}
\end{document}

works for me.
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Joseph Wright

sherifffruitfly

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Oct 28, 2009, 10:50:26 AM10/28/09

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On Oct 28, 1:05 am, Joseph Wright <joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Oct 28, 7:35 am, sherifffruitfly <sherifffruit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I've googled this up, and the only apparently relevant tip I see it to
> > put a whack in front of the underscore. I don't see that it makes any
> > difference - the following snippets all result in the same pdf for me:
>

> > \href{mailto:see\_d\_...@yahoo.com}{see\_d\_...@yahoo.com}
> > \href{mailto:see_d_...@yahoo.com}{see\_d\_...@yahoo.com}

>
> > Both of them result in a mailto link for "@yahoo.com", which clearly
> > is not what I want.
>

> > How do I get "see_d_...@yahoo.com" as a mailto link in my latex

> > compiled into pdf?
>
> > I'm using miktex2.8, and winedt 5.6
>
> > Thanks for any hints!
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{underscore,hyperref}
> \begin{document}

> \href{mailto:see_d_...@yahoo.com}{see_d_...@yahoo.com}

> \end{document}
>
> works for me.
> --
> Joseph Wright

Aargh. I was able to get it to work by hitting the "pdftexify" button,
rather than texify button followed by the dvi->pdf button.

I guess now would be a good time for me to figure out what the
difference is.

Thanks for looking!

-sff

Ulrike Fischer

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Oct 28, 2009, 11:30:59 AM10/28/09

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Am Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:50:26 -0700 (PDT) schrieb sherifffruitfly:

> Aargh. I was able to get it to work by hitting the "pdftexify" button,
> rather than texify button followed by the dvi->pdf button.
>
> I guess now would be a good time for me to figure out what the
> difference is.

The dvi->pdf button probably calls dvipdfm(x). You must tell
hyperref that you are using this driver by adding the correct driver
option (see manual) e.g. \usepackage[dvipdfmx]{hyperref}. As a
default hyperref assumes that dvips is used if you are producing a
dvi first.

--
Ulrike Fischer