Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

B 9 wrote in
<20200619061008.okWcR%hackerb9@member.fsf.org>:
 |Since mdoc is a "semantic markup language", I presumed it would have
 |some way to specify a hyperlink in running text that won't (to the
 |best of mdoc's abilities) interfere with the flow of the text. The
 |exact implementation would be chosen by mdoc based on what output
 |device is selected. It could be something like this:

Yes i am reading this list and yes this has been implemented in
the past (in 2014).  Unfortunately it has not been merged.
And your mailer i available in a newer version which fixes
hundreds of bugs, and adds some nice features.

 |   HTML, use a link;
 |   nroff, drop the URL;¹
 |   PDF, use both a link and a footnote in case it gets printed.
 |
 |For printed output, the tried and true method for the last
 |few centuries has been footnotes, so it makes sense for mdoc to
 |support that, if possible.
 |
 |But, as I said, I have no idea how hard it would be to add footnote
 |output to mdoc. It might not even be feasible.

Pretty easy i presume, at least in the mdoc macros.

 |Also, I'm more concerned at the moment that I can't find any way to
 |attach hyperlinks to text in the middle of sentences using mdoc. Lk's
 |addition of a newline and colon and insistence on always printing the
 |URL makes me think it is the wrong tool. Is there another option I'm
 |missing? Perhaps implementing a new macro similar to Lk?
 |
 |Thank you,

Please.  Here you are.

 |--b9
 |
 |_____
 |¹ Or, is it possible to have footnotes in screen form? Maybe using
 |  bracketed numbers [42]. 
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--steffen
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