Hyperlinks to footnotes bring to first page

[davtorgh]

I'm using Pandoc 1.19.1 with MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.9.6000 and default latex template. Hyperlinks to footnotes bring to first page of the document instead of to the real footnote. Is this a known issue @jgm?
I use pdfTeX directly to typeset other document and hyperlinks to footnotes work well.

Thanks.

[ickc]

I think you should give us a complete recipe for the problem. e.g. source code, pandoc command used, tex output (and point out what's wrong and what's expected).

Also, try to come up with a minimum working example. And if possible, produce the .tex without the -s option.

[jgm]

Yes, we can't proceed without an example. I have not noticed this issue in the past.

[davtorgh]

Ok, here's what i discovered with pandoc markdown manual downloaded from http://pandoc.org/demo/MANUAL.txt

First run with xelatex

pandoc --latex-engine=xelatex manual.txt -o manual-xelatex.pdf

If you click on a hyperlinked note (see manual-xelatex.pdf in the attached zip file), nothing seems to happen.

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Second run with pdftex, after removing some final text that contains annoying charachters for pdftex

pandoc manual.txt -o manual-pdftex.pdf

If you click on a hyperlinked note (see manual-pdftex.pdf in the attached zip file), you find yourself on the first page of the document in a 'full page view'.

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Then I got the latex version of the document

pandoc -s manual.txt -o manual-pdftex.tex

and removed all the text to get a MWE for the footnotes (see pdftex-no.tex and pdftex-no.pdf in the attached zip file). I suppose the problem comes from the following latex code in the preamble

\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\VerbatimFootnotes % allows verbatim text in footnotes

that goes in conflicts with hyperref. After removing these lines of code from the preamble (see pdftex-ok.tex and pdftex-ok.pdf in the attached zip file) the hyperlinked footnotes work fine. @jgm and @ickc, what do you think about?

Thanks

files.zip

[jgm]

Excellent diagnosis! So we have a bit of a puzzle; we need `\VerbatimFootnotes` if we're to have verbatim in footnotes, but breaking note hyperlinks isn't a good consequence. Perhaps poking around on the tex stack exchange (and asking a question if needed) will reveal some solutions?

[ickc]

By simply changing the order between the loading of the 2 packages, we still have warnings but the hyperlink is there:

pdftex-test.pdf

pdftex-test.tex

Because

The hyperref documentation says: "Make sure it comes last of your loaded packages". The reason is that it redefines many LaTeX commands. It's a rule of thumb that helps to avoid errors. From Which packages should be loaded after hyperref instead of before? - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange

[davtorgh]

By simply moving the following code

\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\VerbatimFootnotes

before hyperref my MWE gets compiled, but latex gives error when compiling, for example, the whole manual file. I think the correct sequence is:

\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage[unicode=true]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
            pdftitle={Pandoc User's Guide},
            pdfauthor={John MacFarlane},
            pdfborder={0 0 0},
            breaklinks=true}
\urlstyle{same}
\VerbatimFootnotes

This works for pdftex and xelatex. I tested with the manual file, maybe some other test could be useful. @jgm, @ickc, if you confirm this is the solution, can you update default template in pandoc packages for the various platforms?

Thanks.

[ickc]

I'll test it tomorrow. Meanwhile, jgm/pandoc-templates#238 should be on hold.

[jgm]

Seems to work in my tests. I've updated the templates, thanks.