How to underline and color hyperlinks?

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at gmail.com
Sun Sep 29 03:52:04 UTC 2024


On 9/28/24 5:29 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 09:55:04PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 07:11:36PM +0300, Udicoudco wrote:
>>> The "cololinks" option in the hyperref package disables the borders
>>> at the beginning of the document. If you want both you need to add the
>>> following to the preamble after enabling colored links
>>>
>>> \AtBeginDocument{\hypersetup{pdfborder=0 0 1}}
>>>
>>> Its a question of whether the GUI should indicate
>>> things similar to the LaTeX implementation or not.
>> I think we could indicate this in the UI pane (either
>> disabling border option when colorlinks are enabled
>> or enhance the tooltip).
> This option like the attached.
>
> Second option would be to actually use the proposed workaround
> and allow frames with colors.  The cons:
> 1) not clear how our hack will work in future
>    (might be better to ask upstream if we really aim for this)
> 2) even more complex code wrt the use of \AtBeginDocument & \hypersetup
> 3) will change output for checked color links option only,
>     so we should probably wait for 2.5 to introduce this
>
>
> I favour option 1. Opinions?

Yes, I think this is really a hyperref limitation. I tried, in raw 
LaTeX, to use both colorlinks and pdfborder (or linkbordercolor) as 
options to hyperref, and even that doesn't work. So the hack may be fragile.

Riki




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