Timothy Murphy writes: > > no. with pdfTeX you can get direct access to PDF as you > > compose the TeX. an obvious example where pdftex is needed is > > to allow breaking of links across lines and pages > > But can PDF break links across pages ? -- no, it cant, thats the point. so you have to make the "<link refid="foo" text="Jones and Christopher, 1976"> into two links, "Jones and Chris-" "topher, 1976", on separate lines, both pointing at "foo". OK, so the eggheads could do this in TeX macros (ie trap the hyphenation point and insert a \special). I can't. Donald Arseneau went a long way, but I don't even even he had a general solution. Hans H may, of course, have re-attached the problem and solved it. Others may prefer to try and find the point in the dvi file, and insert some extra "end link" "start link" stuff. Sebastian