RE: [Axiom-developer] hyperlinked algebra

[Bill Page]

On December 7, 2005 8:43 PM Cliff wrote:
> 
> --- Tim Daly (root) wrote:
> > i've hacked src/doc/endpaper.pamphlet to add hyperlinks.
> > most of the links go to catdef.spad.dvi because they are
> > categories that live there. i don't know how to implement 
> > #tags in latex yet.
> 
> What do you mean by tags?  Is that a way to refer to specific 
> points in a document?

Yes. Works in HTML and PDF (Acrobat). Maybe some dvi?

> 
> I'll try to build this file - I wasn't aware pstricks could
> do hyperlinked diagrams.  Can a hyperlinked pdf be created?
> I know there is a pst-pdf package for pstricks but I don't
> know how good it is.
>

Yes, apparently you can create hyperlinked pdf files this way.
See:

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/book--main--1/Endpaper2

This is Tim's revised endpaper file with some additional options
specified for the hyperref package that allow it to generate
hyperlinks using dvipdfm.

\usepackage[dvipdfm,final,colorlinks=true,pdfstartview=FitH]{hyperref}
 
> If pstricks can indeed do all that we want with fancy linking
> and diagrams it might be a better target than XYpic - there
> exist some fairly sophisticated graphing routines for pstricks,

I am not sure why, but I do not see any lines connecting the
nodes in the diagram. Is something still missing from the file?

Regards,
Bill Page.