How Can I Autolink Bare URLs without HTTPS

Amarakon · June 10, 2022, 8:21pm

I have the autolink_bare_uris markdown extension enabled. The following URL will be linked: https://forum.posit.co. But this one will not be autolinked: community.rstudio.com. The second one is autolinked here in this website, but not with LaTeX output. How can I make it autolink URLS without https?

cderv · June 14, 2022, 11:38am

You should be able to use <community.rstudio.com> but I think if you do not add https, a http:// will added for you in the conversion. May not be an issue if redirection from http to https exists on the website.

If you want text and url to be different then you need [community.rstudio.com](https://forum.posit.co)

More about Links with R Markdown (and Pandoc) : Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide

By the way, the extensions you used did not work because Pandoc can't know that without https the string is an URL. It is working on absolute URI only : Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide

Amarakon · June 14, 2022, 1:24pm

<community.rstudio.com> doesn't work but https://forum.posit.co does.

This is a problem if I have set links-as-notes: true.

For now I will just type the full URL: https://forum.posit.co.

cderv · June 14, 2022, 1:35pm

My bad. <url> also need to be a valid URL otherwise it is left as is by the parser and do no get picked up as a link. <https://forum.posit.co> is needed.

link as notes is broken and not working with latest Pandoc version, but this should be fixed in next Pandoc version still to be release

github.com/jgm/pandoc

links-as-notes is broken and has no effect

opened 11:41AM - 17 May 22 UTC

closed 02:38PM - 17 May 22 UTC

cderv

bug

Take this example ````markdown --- title: "My simple title" links-as-note…s: true --- # Pandoc See [Pandoc's Manual](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html) ```` Convert to PDF ``` pandoc --to pdf -o test.pdf test.md ``` You won't get link in footnote but still as clickable reference. I believe this is because the declaration in template happens to early. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/6eb77586b4f98324cde85f2a3006b45c5490e7cb/data/templates/default.latex#L273-L276 and should probably be moved after the package loading https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/6eb77586b4f98324cde85f2a3006b45c5490e7cb/data/templates/default.latex#L378-L380 Probably another piece of template that needs to be moved after https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/f3fcdd52c8bc722862ea73958d41fe53ec03ec1d like https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/9053214fba2b4be05102f2f46157733e63947f92

Amarakon · June 15, 2022, 1:30am

I mean, links as notes works for me. My problem is that I do not want community.rstudio.com to reference a footnote because nobody needs to know that it has https:// infront of it. If I try to do [community.rstudio.com](https://forum.posit.co) with links-as-notes set to true, it will create a footnote for that URL even though it is self explanatory. Is it possible to prevent that link from being a footnote even with links-as-notes: true?

cderv · June 15, 2022, 10:42am

I don't think so out of the box. link-as-notes is here so that Links can be read and accessed even if you print your PDF to paper, where interactive links would not shown.

It works by replacing the url latex command to create footnote. I don't think it can be selective.

github.com

jgm/pandoc/blob/6eb77586b4f98324cde85f2a3006b45c5490e7cb/data/templates/default.latex#L273-L276


      
          $if(links-as-notes)$
          % Make links footnotes instead of hotlinks:
          \DeclareRobustCommand{\href}[2]{#2\footnote{\url{#1}}}
          $endif$

Unless you do it yourself using LaTeX directly with another custom command ?

Amarakon · June 15, 2022, 4:58pm

Okay thanks for the explanation, I'll just stick with writing the full URL: https://forum.posit.co.

system · June 22, 2022, 4:58pm

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