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How does one insert a URL correctly?

I'm writing up a document, and at one point I cite a file online found at http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/grouptheory/groupsp3.pdf

I made a footnote with \footnote{http://www.math.uconn.edu/\textasciitilde kconrad/blurbs/grouptheory/groupsp3.pdf}

I had to find an alternative for the ~ since it would not show up in the final document. This works fine when copy+pasting to a web browser, but is it possible to just link to the page from the pdf by clicking on the footnote?

P.S. If there's a better fix to the ~ issue, I'd be glad to see that as well.

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yunone
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  • On tildes in general: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/312/correctly-typesetting-a-tilde. On tildes in URLs: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10858/url-with-tilde-character – doncherry Sep 15 '11 at 12:41

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You could use \href from the hyperref package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\footnote{\href{http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/grouptheory/groupsp3.pdf}{groups}}


\end{document}
Gonzalo Medina
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You could use either the \url or \href commands from hyperref package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
  \footnote{\url{http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/grouptheory/groupsp3.pdf}}
  \footnote{\href{http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/grouptheory/groupsp3.pdf}{Text printed}}
\end{document}

\url prints the URL with \textt style fonts. \href prints the text that follows the URL. Note that on a printed copy of you article the real URL will not be visible.

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