Hi Ben,
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Ben Harrison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I am mildly annoyed each time I use a PDF doc of an R package that the table > of contents hyperlinks are *only* on the page numbers. To activate a > hyperlink, one must carefully scan sideways from the text item wanted to the > far right of the page and click on a tiny box. Multiply that mild annoyance > by the large number of times I need to look up package help docs, and I find > myself here writing this message. I agree that it would be nicer to have the whole TOC entry hyperlinked. But out of curiosity, why are you using the pdf documentation? I find the html much nicer. Best, Ista > > From my understanding (albeit poor), all of the R docs for packages are to > be written in Rd format. From that they are converted by the functions in > the tools package as required (to latex and PDF, or HTML, etc). So the only > thing that controls in the PDF docs the hyperlinks one way or another is the > latex style file used - in this case I believe it is Rd.sty > (/usr/share/R/share/texmf/tex/latex/Rd.sty on my system). > > Line 303 of that file contains the single setting of the \hypersetup{} > command for whether or not the text in the table of contents is hyperlinked, > or the page number: > > linktocpage,% > > which causes it to implicitly be set to True. Setting it to false (or just > commenting out that line I suppose as false is the default) would mean the > *text* in the TOC is hyperlinked. > > So, is the desired behaviour intended to be that only the page numbers are > hyperlinked (and therefore to annoy me), or has no-one really bothered > themselves with it that much, or something else? > > Can I recreate all the documentation on my system after I make a change to > Rd.sty? > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
