[Journal] URL usage

[Martin Wegmann]

Hello,

On Tuesday, 1. May 2007 21:29:54 Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm still plugging away at some editing.
> I have a few url-related ideas to discuss.
>
> 1/
> I'm going through to make sure all urls are wrapped up using the \url
> macro, e.g.
> \url{http://www.osgeo.org} instead of writing it out in plain text.
>
> 2/
> In most cases the urls are too long to work properly within the text,
> so I'm setting them as footnotes within the text, e.g.
>
> "For more information see the website.\footnote{The website: \url
> {http://www.osgeo.org}}"

good, then it is easier to read the text.

> I really like that method but wonder if there were any problems with
> this approach.
>
> 3/
> Since we use \url{} it isn't necessary to explicitly include
> "http://" in the tex file.  I'd like to keep the url as short as
> possible so it is as readable as possible.  For example:
> "See our website: \url{www.osgeo.org}"
> or
> "See our website.\footnote{url{www.osgeo.org}}"

this does not work - using kpdf ("Malformed URL")

Martin