Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?

[T . Kurt Bond]

B 9 <hackerb9@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Steve Izma <sizma@golden.net> wrote:
> Since you had such excellent suggestions, I'd like your advice about
> something I've noticed: printed materials often omit the protocol when
> it is "https://"; or "http://";. That makes sense to me and I am
> inclined to change the way the .URL macro in the WWW package works so
> it does the same (when no link text is specified).
> 
> For example,
> 
>     .URL https://foo.bar.com/fred/juki/
> 
> would be displayed (in PDF, HTML, and nroff) as simply
> 
>     foo.bar.com/fred/juki/
> 
> Steve, what do you think of this practice?
> 
> Everyone: Would anyone object if .URL used this strategy for cleaner
> typesetting?

Please don't do this: there are still web sites out there that only
respond to www.website.tld and not to website.tld.

-- 
T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond@gmail.com