Re: [help-texinfo] Upgraded texinfo.tex: links are no longer colored

[Gavin Smith]

On 25 September 2016 at 14:21, Andreas Falkenhahn
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I've recently updated my texinfo.tex from a 2012 version to a 2016 version.
> With the 2012 version, links were rendered in a dark red colour, see here:
> http://www.softwarefailure.de/tmp/old.png
>
> With the new 2016 version, however, links now appear in plain black, see here:
> http://www.softwarefailure.de/tmp/new.png
>
> I don't like this. I'd like the links to be clearly distinguishable from 
> normal,
> unclickable text. That's why I'd like to have the behaviour of the 2012 
> version
> back, i.e. the links should appear in the same dark red colour as before, not
> in black. How can I do that?

Hello Andreas,

You can do this with

@tex
\global\def\linkcolor{0.50 0.09 0.12} % dark red
\global\def\urlcolor{0.50 0.09 0.12} % dark red
@end tex

See also the "(texinfo)PDF Colors" info node.

Gavin