# 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](http://prefix.cc).
If you want to include the 1000 most popular prefixes instead, use `\usepackage[1000]{aurl}`.
# Usage
1. copy [aurl.sty](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KonradHoeffner/latex/master/aurl/aurl.sty) to your working directory
2. add `\usepackage{aurl}` to your preamble
4. (optional) define non-default prefixes using `\daurl{prefix}{prefix expansion}`
3. 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](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)).
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