added linkStyle option to render links as href

Markdown.php

@@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ class Markdown extends \cebe\markdown\Parser
 	 */
 	public $labelPrefix = '';
 
+	const LINK_STYLE_FOOTNOTE = 'footnote';
+	const LINK_STYLE_HREF = 'href';
+
+	/**
+	 * @var string link style defines how links are rendered in LaTeX, there are two different options:
+	 *
+	 * - `footnote` (default) - render all links with a footnote, which contains the full URL of the link. This is good for printing the PDF.
+	 * - `href` - render all links with a hyperref, similar to HTML, the link target is not visible in this case.
+	 */
+	public $linkStyle = self::LINK_STYLE_FOOTNOTE;
+
 	/**
 	 * @var array these are "escapeable" characters. When using one of these prefixed with a
 	 * backslash, the character will be outputted without the backslash and is not interpreted
@@ -204,6 +215,9 @@ protected function renderLink($block)
 			}
 			return '\hyperref['.str_replace('#', '::', $url).']{' . $text . '}';
 		} else {
+			if ($this->linkStyle === self::LINK_STYLE_HREF) {
+				return '\href{' . $this->escapeUrl($url) . '}{' . $text . '}';
+			}
 			return $text . '\\footnote{' . (empty($block['title']) ? '' : $this->escapeLatex($block['title']) . ': ') . '\url{' . $this->escapeUrl($url) . '}}';
 		}
 	}

bin/markdown-latex

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ foreach ($composerAutoload as $autoload) {
 // Send all errors to stderr
 ini_set('display_errors', 'stderr');
 
+$linkStyle = 'footnote';
 $flavor = 'cebe\\markdown\\latex\\Markdown';
 $flavors = [
 	'gfm' => ['cebe\\markdown\\latex\\GithubMarkdown', __DIR__ . '/../GithubMarkdown.php'],
@@ -47,6 +48,17 @@ foreach($argv as $k => $arg) {
 					error("Incomplete argument --flavor!", "usage");
 				}
 			break;
+			case '--link-style':
+				if (isset($arg[1])) {
+					if ($arg[1] === 'href' || $arg[1] === 'footnote') {
+						$linkStyle = $arg[1];
+					} else {
+						error("Unknown link style: " . $arg[1], "usage");
+					}
+				} else {
+					error("Incomplete argument --link-style!", "usage");
+				}
+			break;
 			case '--full':
 				$full = true;
 				break;
@@ -79,6 +91,7 @@ if (empty($src)) {
 
 /** @var cebe\markdown\Parser $md */
 $md = new $flavor();
+$md->linkStyle = $linkStyle;
 $tex = $md->parse($markdown);
 
 if ($full) {
@@ -172,6 +185,11 @@ Usage:
               gfm - Github flavored markdown [2]
               extra - Markdown Extra [3]
 
+    --link-style  specifies how links are being rendered:
+
+              footnote (default) - render all links with a footnote, which contains the full URL of the link. This is good for printing the PDF.
+              href - render all links with a hyperref, similar to HTML, the link target is not visible in this case.
+
     --full    ouput a full TEX document with document class, begin and end document. If not given, only the parsed markdown will be output.
 
     --help    shows this usage information.