I know that I can use hyperref to make cross-references and hyperlinks clickable. That makes the clickable areas outlined in fluorescent green, however. How can I make the green boxes go away?
[Tex/LaTex] Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks
boxescolorhyperreflinks
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The hyperref package does all of these things. you may need to include it with options like backlinksbackref to get back references, but it does everything you need.
Hyperlinks in the table of contents (TOC) are generated by the \contentsline command defined in hyperref.sty. The linktoc=all option setting makes \contentsline add separate links to the title and page number. A third link can be applied to the leader between the title and page number by patching the appropriate leader-generating command locally using etoolbox. Enclosing the whole TOC entry in a hyperlink would be much tidier, but this is a relatively difficult problem.
For TOCs formatted by latex internals, the leader is generated by the command
\@dottedtocline defined in latex.ltx. The following patch simply encloses the leader in a hyperlink pointing to the current TOC entry's location, which is passed as the fourth argument to \contentsline.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[linktoc=all]{hyperref}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\pretocmd{\contentsline}
{\patchcmd{\@dottedtocline}
{\leaders}
{\hyper@linkstart{link}{#4}\leaders}
{}
{}%
\patchcmd{\@dottedtocline}
{\hfill}
{\hfill\hyper@linkend}
{}
{}}
{}
{}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{First Chapter} \pagebreak
\section{First Section} \pagebreak
\subsection{First Subsection}
\chapter{Second Chapter} \pagebreak
\section{Second Section} \pagebreak
\subsection{Second Subsection}
\end{document}
The result looks terrible with link borders, but not so bad with colorlinks=true.
This patch is general enough to work with TOCs formatted via package-defined user commands so long as the leader is generated by \@dottedtocline. KOMA-Script's tocstyle is one example of such a package - it redefines \@dottedtocline.
tocloft and memoir issue the command \cftdotfill instead of \@dottedtocline. The code below demonstrates a patch that will work for both the tocloft package and the memoir document class.
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[linktoc=all]{hyperref}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\pretocmd{\contentsline}
{\patchcmd{\cftdotfill}
{\leaders}
{\hyper@linkstart{link}{#4}\leaders}
{}
{}%
\patchcmd{\cftdotfill}
{\hfill}
{\hfill\hyper@linkend}
{}
{}}
{}
{}
\makeatother
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\renewcommand*{\cftdot}{\ensuremath{\ast}}
\renewcommand*{\cftsectionfont}{\itshape}
\renewcommand*{\cftsectionleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftsectiondotsep}}
\renewcommand*{\cftsubsectionfont}{\scshape}
\renewcommand*{\cftsubsectiondotsep}{9}
\renewcommand*{\cftsubsectionleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftsubsectiondotsep}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{First Chapter} \pagebreak
\section{First Section} \pagebreak
\subsection{First Subsection}
\chapter{Second Chapter} \pagebreak
\section{Second Section} \pagebreak
\subsection{Second Subsection}
\end{document}
Best Answer
With
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}you get active links in\textcolor(usually black) without a box around them.