How to make an email link clickable?

Mario Blättermann <mariobl at gnome.org>
Thu Dec 2 09:56:16 EST 2010

Hi Jim,

Am Mittwoch, den 01.12.2010, 15:53 -0600 schrieb Jim Campbell:
> Hi Mario,
> 
> 2010/12/1 Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com>
> Hi Mario,
> 
> I think that this should work: <link href="mailto:joe at example.com">Joe Smith</link>.
> 
> Let me know if this helps,
> 
> Jim
> 
> If you want the actual email to be listed, I *think* you should also be able to do this: <link href="mailto:joe at example.com"/>. > Let me know if that will work.

The first one works fine. The mail address is hidden, only the name of the recipient is displayed. That's precisely what I want. The second one also works, but the "mailto:" part is also displayed. Well, it's a cosmetic problem, but the first one is better.

Thanks for pointing this out. In any case, somebody should add this to the Mallard manual. As I already wrote, the current recommendations for replacing the "email" tag from DocBook points to <sys> in an inline context or <name> inside an <credit> element. But both are not really useful in this case.

Cheers,
Mario