[Tex/LaTex] Url is not displayed correctly

urls

I am using some big faculty LaTeX template for my thesis, so I do not really know, which packages I am supposed to mention here …

Anyway, I am trying to write some urls.

I write them like

\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask}

But the result in the PDF is

¡http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask¿

What can be wrong? How can I get rid of those marks?

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Does your template redefine \url such that its output should look like <https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask> (including the angular brackets)? In this case the font encoding might be wrong. Try adding \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} to the preamble (or use \textless and \textgreater in the definition of \url).

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The template you pointed to uses the natbib package to manage citations and the bibliography. While this package features a lot of possible citation styles, to the best of my knowledge it isn't suited for footnote citations containing (as I assume you want) the full bibliographic information. That's another reason why, as Marco pointed out, you should start with classes like scrbook or memoir and add packages and personal modifications only as needed.

In the following compilable example, I use the scrbook class (part of KOMA-script) plus the biblatex and hyperref packages to produce clickable citations that point to the full bibliographic information in the footnote.

\documentclass{scrbook}

\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
  url = {http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4420/best-way-to-start-using-latex-tex},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\chapter{foo}

Some text \autocite{A01}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

(The filecontents environment is only used to include some external files directly into the example, so that it compiles. It is not necessary for the solution.)

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This is hackish, but it does the job:

#+LaTeX_HEADER: \newcommand{\murl}[2]{\url{#1://#2}}
\murl{http}{www.google.com}

You can also just use the org format for URLs in the .org file, which will then be translated into proper TeX:

  [[http://www.google.com][google.com]]

You can insert such a link with C-c C-l, if you don't feel like typing it.

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