put a link in the document

Question

I'm using the following code snippet to put a link in the document:

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
http://vlm1.uta.edu/~zhangzhong/fall_detection/
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

But the latex changed my link to:

http://vlm1.uta.edu/˜zhangzhong/fall_detection/

It seems that it can't show '~' correctly.

Try packages url or hyperref – Johannes_B Mar 15 '14 at 21:37 — Johannes_B, Mar 15 '14 at 21:37
related/possible duplciate Correctly typesetting a tilde – Adam Liter Mar 15 '14 at 21:37 — Adam Liter, Mar 15 '14 at 21:37

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '14 at 21:40

You could load the url (or the hyperref) package and issue the commands

{\footnotesize \url{http://vlm1.uta.edu/˜zhangzhong/fall_detection/}}

The \url command (a) renders its argument in a monospaced (aka typewriter) font -- as you are evidently trying to do by using a verbatim environment -- and, very importantly, (b) takes care to deal correctly with characters, such as ~, that are "special" to TeX but are perfectly valid in URL strings.

Incidentally, there is no real footnotesize environment, just a \footnotesize switch. To limit the scope of this switch, use curly braces (as is done in the example above).

yeah, this kind of work. But you can't just click the link to show the webpage if using this way. — FihopZz, Mar 15 '14 at 21:50

put a link in the document

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