disabling active email link in IEEEtran

Question

I have the following line in the authors affiliations section in an IEEEtran-class-based paper:

Email: \{author1,author2\}@example.com

When the paper is compiled, the above becomes the following active link

"mailto:author2}@example.com".

How do I prevent it from happening? I just want the above email link to be plain text and read as {author1,author2}@example.com.

Thanks.

Note that some PDF viewers have some heuristics for detecting URIs in them, like Web links or email addresses and you can't disable it. If you don't load hyperref there will be no real link in the PDF document, which is how much you can get, because anybody opening the PDF with a previewer having those heuristics will see a link. — egreg, Nov 19 '14 at 14:46

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

This may be an attribute of the PDF specification and viewer, since you're not even including hyperref. That is, when you have something of the form <possibly something>@<something>.<something>, it's interpreted as an email (without the @, perhaps a website). An effective way I've been able to remove this automated interpretation is to create a space at some inconspicuous location within the string-in-question. Somewhat similar to writing {author1,author2}@example .com. For example, using

Email: \{homer, lisa\}@thesimpsons\hspace{0.125em}.com}% Remove hyperlink from email

If you try this yourself, you'll note that using a space of only 0.12em doesn't remove the hyperlink when viewed in Adobe Reader, suggesting that TeX is not involved here.

Another option would be to insert some non-link-related content. Below I've made \emaildot which is a scaled-down version of \textbullet, simulating a .:

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\documentclass[conference]{ieeetran}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newcommand{\emaildot}{\makebox[0.2em]{\scalebox{.23}{\textbullet}}}
\title{A title}
\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Michael Shell}
    \IEEEauthorblockA{School of Electrical and\\
    Computer Engineering\\
    Georgia Institute of Technology\\
    Atlanta, Georgia 30332--0250\\
    Email: mshell@ece.gatech.edu}
  \and
    \IEEEauthorblockN{Homer Simpson}
    \IEEEauthorblockA{Twentieth Century Fox\\
    Springfield, USA\\
    Email: \{homer, lisa\}@thesimpsons\emaildot com}% Remove hyperlink from email
  \and
    \IEEEauthorblockN{James Kirk\\
    and Montgomery Scott}
    \IEEEauthorblockA{Starfleet Academy\\
    San Francisco, California 96678-2391\\
    Telephone: (800) 555--1212\\
    Fax: (888) 555--1212}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

The contact information above, as an example, was taken from the IEEEtran documentation.

The above method is similar to the suggestion in Obfuscation of @ and . in e-mail addresses. Somewhat different, but similar.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '14 at 09:33

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It turns out this has nothing to do with IEEETran template. If you use Acrobat/Acroreader, just turn the edit-> preferences...-> general-> create links from url option off. If you are using sumartraPDF, nothing can be done at the moment.

answered Nov 21 '14 at 09:33

Troy Woo

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disabling active email link in IEEEtran

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