[Tex/LaTex] How to avoid link higlighting when using package hyperref

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I'd like to include some http links in my document. So i Included the hyperref package so that i can use the command \url{}

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This works, but the problem is, that all the links in my document (also the ones created with \ref{} or \cite{} are highlighted. I want to avoid that. So i added:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=false}

But nothing changed. How can I avoid that all links are highlighted? I only want to enable URLs and nothing else.

Best Answer

Only load the url package it also provides \url but will not render an hyperlink. Note that most PDF viewer do this now automatically anyway.

If your really need hyperref for something else try to:

Load the option with the package: \usepackage[colorlinks=false]{hyperref}
Create a hyperref.cfg file in the same directory as your TeX file and put the \hypersetup{colorlinks=false} in there.

Certain options of hyperref must be given very early and can't be changed afterwards. The colorlinks option might be one of them.

Supplement:

I just tested this under my TeXLive 2010 installation. With colorlinks=false I get the usual colored frame around the hypertext. You might want to activate colors and set them to black:

\usepackage[colorlinks=true,urlcolor=black]{hyperref}

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As you already have found out the problem occurs every time the hyperref package will be loaded prior to the minted package. This is happening here:

The hyperref package will be loaded. It does not detect the float package (because the float package is not loaded yet), and therefore it does not patch the float package code.
The minted package will be loaded which loads the float package, and does a \newfloat.
The caption package will be loaded. It does detect the float and hyperref packages, and assumes that the float package code was patched by hyperref. But this assumtion is false in this case.

So as solution you could load the float package prior to the hyperref package and the minted package after the hyperref package - which BTW is the correct load order anyway, see hyperref's README for details.

\documentclass{report}

% it's all in the order of the imports

% this one is the correct one:

% 1. Load the float package
\usepackage{float}

% 2. Load the hyperref package; hyperref will patch the float package
\usepackage{hyperref}

% 3. Load the minted package which will use the patched \newfloat now
\usepackage{minted}

% The load order of the caption package is (or should be) irrelevant now
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\chapter{test}

\clearpage

\begin{listing}[H] \mint{cl}/(car (cons 1 2))/
\caption{Example of a listing.}
\label{lst:example}
\end{listing}
\clearpage

Listing \ref{lst:example} contains an example of a listing.

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] redefining \label and \ref when using hyperref

Because some redefining of \label/\ref by hyperref/nameref is done via \AtBeginDocument, you have to use it also at a later time after the packages are loaded:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}

\AtBeginDocument{%
  \LetLtxMacro{\TheRealLabel}{\label}%
  \LetLtxMacro{\TheRealRef}{\ref}%
  \LetLtxMacro{\TheRealPageRef}{\pageref}%
  % redefining \label, \ref, \pageref (\renewcommand or \DeclareRobustCommand)
}

Updated with egreg's comment. \LetLtxMacro of package letltxmacro takes care of macros that are defined via \DeclareRobustCommand (or as macros with optional parameters).

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