Re: @ if html uref suggestion

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden> Date: 10 Nov 2000 17:34:41
>> +0100
>> 
>> I personally use this:
>> 
>> @c I don't like the way URL are displayed in TeX with @uref.

Eli> Could you please explain why don't you like URLs in printed
Eli> output?

They convey information which usually doesn't matter when you have a
book in your hands.  For instance in the Autoconf documentation: 

| See the @href{http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html,
| Autoconf web page} for up to date information, details on the mailing
| lists, pointers to a list of known bugs, etc.
| 
| Mail suggestions to @email{autoconf@@gnu.org, the Autoconf mailing
| list}.

In the printed copy, I want to read

| See the Autoconf web page for up to date information, details on the mailing
| lists, pointers to a list of known bugs, etc.
| 
| Mail suggestions to the Autoconf mailing list.

and have a pointer to the URL (the footnote is just fine: it doesn't
break the flow).  Printing the URL right there breaks the sentence
with an ugly and long @code stuff.  And frankly, until I read DVI with
an eBook, having the URL right next to it is of no use :)