[racket] Scribble secref unlinked in PDF output

From: Tim Jervis (tim at timjervis.com)
Date: Mon Nov 4 11:17:02 EST 2013

Thanks Matthew, works great. Kind regards, Tim

On 3 Nov 2013, at 17:11, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> I've change Scribble to hyperlink section references by default in
> LaTeX/PDF output.
> 
> The change turned out to be easy, due to improvements back in July that
> deliver a LaTeX-level label to macros that render section links (when
> the referenced section is within the same document).
> 
> At Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:02:27 +0100, Tim Jervis wrote:
>> Dear Racket Users,
>> 
>> I have been writing a document in Scribble, without output to PDF. The table 
>> of contents of the PDF nicely links the entries in the table to the sections 
>> in the document, so that when viewing the PDF on screen rather than paper, one 
>> can click or tap on a line in the table of contents to quickly navigate to the 
>> relevant section. Unfortunately, if I add a secref element in the body of the 
>> document, it is not rendered in the same way and the secref elements are not 
>> clickable on screen.
>> 
>> My investigation into this so far has revealed to me that the table of 
>> contents linking appears to be handled with the LaTeX Hyperref package, and is 
>> taken out of Scribble's hands.
>> 
>> For HTML output, Scribble seems able to render links just fine. I wonder if 
>> Scribble has been written without the notion that PDF output might be viewed 
>> on screen, so the link elements have been neglected.
>> 
>> In any event, is there a way to render a PDF with "live" secref links, to give 
>> similar functionality to the table of contents?
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> Tim Jervis
>> 
>> http://timjervis.com/
>> 
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