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In printed documents, I think hyperlinks should be presented as footnotes. Currently, the entire hyperlink destination is lost without any indication that there ever was a hyperlink.

I first tried this attempt which gives an explicit different rendering for printer

<assign|hl|<macro|t|l|<specific|screen|<hlink|<arg|t>|<arg|l>>><specific|printer|<arg|t><\footnote>
<arg|l>
</footnote>>>>

A footnote number is consumed on-screen (but can't be seen) - this is understandable, but puzzling to the reader; but in the PS output it shows the footnote number by the link but doesn't show the footnote at the bottom of the page.

I decided that it makes sense to show the footnote text on the screen too, so I tried
<assign|hl|<macro|t|l|<specific|screen|<hlink|<arg|t>|<arg|l>>><specific|printer|<arg|t>><\footnote>
<arg|l>
</footnote>>>

But it doesn't reserve space for work (because of how specific works - it would be nice to have a <specific-exclude> tag that renders everywhere except the name environments...

Finally I tried this:
<assign|hl|<macro|t|l|<hlink|<arg|t>|<arg|l>><\footnote>
<arg|l>
</footnote>>>

And it seems fair enough.

To make it work:
<assign|old-hlink|<value|hlink>>
<assign|hlink|<macro|t|l|<old-hlink|<arg|t>|<arg|l>><\footnote>
<arg|l>
</footnote>>>

Anyone got thoughts on this?

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• [TeXmacs] Hyperlinks in PDF, Sam Liddicott, 11/25/2010

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