aurl—Abbreviated URLs for LaTeX

Extends the hyperref package with a mechanism for hyperlinked URLs abbreviated with prefixes.

Purpose

The Semantic Web community heavily uses prefixes to abbreviate URLs (AURLs), such as owl:class or rdf:type. The LaTeX hyperref package defines the url command to print and hyperlink a URL but if used for AURLs, the hyperlink fails. But href from hyperref is tedious to use. The aurl package introduces \aurl{prefix}{suffix} and includes the 100 most popular prefixes from prefix.cc. If you want to include the 1000 most popular prefixes instead, use \usepackage[1000]{aurl}.

Usage

1. copy aurl.sty to your working directory
2. add \usepackage{aurl} to your preamble
3. (optional) define non-default prefixes using \daurl{prefix}{prefix expansion}
4. add your AURLs with \aurl{prefix}{suffix}

Example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{aurl}
\begin{document}
 \aurl{rdfs}{label}
 \aurl{owl}{class}
 \daurl{bbc}{http://bbc.com/}
 \aurl{bbc}{news}
\end{document}

License

This is completely free, do whatever you want (CC0 license).