Re[2]: Active urls?

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

Thursday, May 31, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> At 05:03 PM 5/30/01 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I tend to use/give lots of URL references in my document. I
>>``recently'' discovered the full power of \useurl (even if I'm
>>still not sure about the three-entries syntax), but I'd like to
>>know if it is possible to make URLs active without resorting to
>>\from[...], that is: is there a setup option that allows \url[...]
>>to give an active hyperling?

HH> probably something: 

HH> \let\normalurl\url

HH> \def\url[#1]{\useurl[dummy][#1]\normalurl[dummy]}

Uh ... that would let \url "merge" the functionality of \useurl
and \url, but that's not what I want. The problem is that if I
do:

\useurl[whatever][this.net.address]

\url[whatever]

then \url[whatever] gives this.net.address, but it's not active,
while \from[whatever] gives this.net.address, active.

\let\url=\from does not work. Any ideas?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta