Hyper-links in L^ATEX

Arbitrary hypertext references are created using the \htmladdnormallink and \htmladdimg commands. These have syntax:

\htmladdnormallink{<text>}{<URL>}
\htmladdnormallink[<name>]{<text>}{<URL>}

\htmladdimg{<URL>}
\htmladdimg[<align>]<URL>}

\htmladdnormallinkfoot{<text>}{<URL>}
\htmladdnormallinkfoot[<name>]{<text>}{<URL>}

\htmladdnormallink

The \htmladdnormallink command expects some text as the first argument and a URL as the second argument. When processed by L^ATEX (i.e. in the .dvi or .ps output files), the URL will have no effect. But when processed by the translator, the URL will be used to provide an active hypertext link (to another file, picture, sound-file, movie, etc.) e.g.

\htmladdnormallink{<URL>}
{http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/url-primer.html}

The optional argument to \htmladdnormallink allows a name to be specified for the place in the document where the hyperlink occurs. This is done via the NAME="<name>" attribute for the <A ...> anchor tag in HTML. Such a name can be used as the target for a hyperlink using the \htmlref command, described later.

\htmladdimg

In a similar way, the argument of the \htmladdimg command should be a URL pointing to an image. This URL is ignored in the L^ATEX hard copy output. The optional argument to \htmladdimg allows an alignment for the image to be given: center, right or left. In the latter cases, the image is bound to the specified side of the browser's window. Subsequent text paragraphs `flow around' the other side of the image.

In fact any valid set of ``attributes'' for the <IMG> tag in HTML can be specified as the optional <align> parameter. In particular the WIDTH, HEIGHT and BORDER attributes can be set, perhaps overriding the natural size of the image.

\htmladdnormallinkfoot

The \htmladdnormallinkfoot command takes the same arguments, and when generating HTML has the same effect, as \htmladdnormallink. However when processed by L^ATEX it places the URL as a footnote.

Warning:  The tilde (~) character is commonly used within hyperlink URLs. It is a quirk of TEX and L^ATEX that it must be generated via \~{}, else the ~ will be interpreted as an accent on the following character.