Use hyperref package for pdf metadata (TOC, Title, Author)

[tobanw]

It would be nice to have a "document outline" (I would call it a metadata TOC) for using the navigation tree in pdf viewers (usually you can toggle between thumbnail view and document outline). This can easily be added by using the hyperref package -- by default it generates the document outline and you can specify more metadata. For example:

\usepackage{hyperref}

\hypersetup{
    pdftitle={Think Stats}
    pdfauthor={Allen B. Downey}
}

It will also automatically linkify all your references! From the link above: "This will automatically turn all your internal references into hyperlinks. It won't affect the way to write your documents: just keep on using the standard \label-\ref system (discussed in the chapter on Labels and Cross-referencing); with hyperref those "connections" will become links and you will be able to click on them to be redirected to the right page. Moreover the table of contents, list of figures/tables and index will be made of hyperlinks, too."

[AllenDowney]

Can't get it to work with hevea.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Toban Wiebe notifications@github.com wrote:

It would be nice to have a "document outline" (I would call it a metadata TOC) for using the navigation tree in pdf viewers (usually you can toggle between thumbnail view and document outline). This can easily be added by using the hyperref package https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks -- by default it generates the document outline and you can specify more metadata. For example:

\usepackage{hyperref} \hypersetup{ pdftitle={Think Stats} pdfauthor={Allen B. Downey} }

It will also automatically linkify all your references! From the link above: "This will automatically turn all your internal references into hyperlinks. It won't affect the way to write your documents: just keep on using the standard \label-\ref system (discussed in the chapter on Labels and Cross-referencing); with hyperref those "connections" will become links and you will be able to click on them to be redirected to the right page. Moreover the table of contents, list of figures/tables and index will be made of hyperlinks, too."

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[tobanw]

Ah that's too bad. I'll go ahead and close this then.

[tobanw]

I just happened upon a method which might get around your problem with hevea. As you can see in this example, you can use the package ifpdf to only load hyperref when compiling to pdf.