[Tex/LaTex] Options and suggestions for hyperref font

colorformattinghyperref

Background

I am interested in finding and implementing a more aesthetically pleasing style for the hyperlinks in my document.

I have read through the documentation, but I find both the colored text and the colored boxes to be distracting, particularly when there are many in a page. The "french style" monospace is not distinct enough from the \verb+font+ that I use frequently.

Questions

How can I make hyperref links in a specific font or font style?
What is a pleasing way to indicate references in a document without using too many colors?

Best Answer

I would not change the font for the hyperlinks if the document is supposed to be printed. This will make the links stand out even though they have no function in a paper version of your document.

I would suggest using

\usepackage[ocgcolorlinks]{hyperref}

This will make the links colored in the electronic version where it serves a purpose but they will print in black. Use a color from the document color scheme.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] options for appearance of links in hyperref

You can customise pretty much any thing in that regard, all the way to hiding all the links (no colours, no frames, just plain black text) with hidelinks.

if you use colorlinks=true you can set (defaults in []):

linkcolor [red]
anchorcolor [black]
citecolor [green]
filecolor [cyan]
menucolor [red]
runcolor [cyan - same as file color]
urlcolor [magenta]
allcolors -- use this if you want to set all links to the same color

if you want some of these not coloured, simply set them to . (e.g., citecolor=.), which will use the color of the text where the link appears.

if you use colorlinks=false and therefore want the frames around the links you have access to these settings:

citebordercolor [rgb 0 1 0]
filebordercolor [rgb 0 .5 .5]
linkbordercolor [rgb 1 0 0]
menubordercolor [rgb 1 0 0]
urlbordercolor [rgb 0 1 1]
runbordercolor [rgb 0 .7 .7]
allbordercolors

again if you want some of these to not appear, set them to white.

In your case, if you want the frames around links in citations but not on the table of content (and therefore not on other links such as to figures, tables or footnotes) I suggest you have a \hypersetup configuration with at least:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks = false,
    linkbordercolor = {white},
    <your other options...>,
}

[Tex/LaTex] wrapping inline long lines and adding background color

Two types of macros are defined. The \plaintt breaks at line endings (without any additional hyphen character added). The other one \highlighttt allows breaks only at dots, and colors the text. No break can occur in between dots.

Update: I have made the thing a bit customizable. Let me comment on the difference between the two macros: \highlighttt has the disadvantage or advantage that breaks occur only at dots. But it has the big advantage that somewhat arbitrary TeX code in-between the dots can be used. See the first paragraph in the example, where I highlighted one sub-piece in blue.

The second macro \plaintt accepts basically only letters and punctutations, but anything can be escaped from it by just putting it within braces. This is illustrated in the second paragraph.

A hook is provided so that also \plaintt can do some highlighting, character per character. See the third paragraph where only \plaintt is used, but the hook has been set to use the yellow box highlighting method.

The highlighting method for \highlighttt is specified in the command \myhighlightmethod.

Only the use of the txtt font is hardcoded in the two macros, but of course this could be changed.

\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[textwidth=12cm]{geometry}
%\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{color}


% ``private macros''
\makeatletter
\def\@highlightttpeeknext{\futurelet\@nexttoken\@highlightttaux}
\def\@highlighttt #1.{%
    \def\@highlightttaux{\ifx\@nexttoken\egroup
       \myhighlightmethod {#1}\else
       \myhighlightmethod {#1.}\linebreak[2]%
       \expandafter\@highlighttt\fi}%
    \@highlightttpeeknext}

\def\@plaintt {\futurelet\@nexttoken\@plainttaux}
\def\@plainttaux {\ifx\@nexttoken\egroup\else
                  \ifx\@nexttoken\bgroup
                  \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\@plaintta\else
                  \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\@plainttb\fi\fi}
\def\@plaintta #1{{#1}\@plaintt}
\def\@plainttb #1{\ifcat\@nexttoken a\penalty\hyphenpenalty \plaintthook
  #1\else \plaintthook{#1}\linebreak[2]\fi\@plaintt}



% ``commands''

\newcommand{\highlighttt}[1]{{\fontfamily{txtt}\selectfont
   \@highlighttt #1.}}

\newcommand\plaintt{\bgroup\fontfamily{txtt}\selectfont
   \afterassignment\@plaintt\let\next= }

\makeatother

% ``customization''
\newcommand{\myhighlightmethod}[1]{\fboxsep0pt\colorbox{yellow}{\strut#1}}
\newcommand{\plaintthook}{}



\begin{document}\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{description}

\item In \plaintt{./build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core/plugin.xml}
  there is an extension \highlighttt{org.eclipse.cdt.{\color{blue}managedbuilder}.language.settings.providers.GCCBuildCommandParser}
  corresponding to the name \plaintt{GCCBuildOutputParser.name}. This is
  extending at the point 
  \highlighttt{org.eclipse.cdt.core.LanguageSettingsProvider}

\item In \highlighttt{./build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core/plugin.xml}
  there is an extension \plaintt{org.eclipse.cdt.{\color{blue}managedbuilder}.language.settings.providers.GCCBuildCommandParser}
  corresponding to the name \highlighttt{GCCBuildOutputParser.name}. This is
  extending at the point 
  \plaintt{org.eclipse.cdt.core.LanguageSettingsProvider}

\renewcommand{\plaintthook}[1]{\myhighlightmethod{#1}}

\item In \plaintt{./build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core/plugin.xml}
  there is an extension \plaintt{org.eclipse.cdt.{\color{blue}managedbuilder}.language.settings.providers.GCCBuildCommandParser}
  corresponding to the name \plaintt{GCCBuildOutputParser.name}. This is
  extending at the point 
  \plaintt{org.eclipse.cdt.core.LanguageSettingsProvider}

\end{description}


\end{document}

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