Writing Url's in latex

Question

This is a pretty basic question but... How do you write a url in Latex? The subscripts and everything else make the font look very strange when it compiles.

Answer 1

very simple, use this:

\url{https://stackoverflow.com/}

Answer 2

Here is all the information you need in order to format clickable hyperlinks in LaTeX:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks

Essentially, you use the hyperref package and use the \url or \href tag depending on what you're trying to acheive.

Answer 3

No, not clickable just to have the verbatim url written. Every time I try to write it, it formats oddly.

Answer 4

The http:// has some spaces, the subscripts for instance stack_overflow the o would would be written as an actual subscript, basically I want to be able to write it verbatim so that it looks normal but without having it link as a url (so presumably without hyperref package).

Answer 5

You just need to escape characters that have special meaning: # $ % & ~ _ ^ \ { }

So

http://stack_overflow.com/~foo%20bar#link

would be

http://stack\_overflow.com/\~foo\%20bar\#link

Answer 6

A minimalist implementation of the \url macro that uses only Tex primitives: \def\url#1{\expandafter\string\csname #1\endcasname}. This url absolutely won't break over lines, though; the hyperref package is better for that.