Jesse Alama wrote:

Steffen Wolfrum writes:

...

God bless the command \hyphenatedurl{...} !

Only, I am wondering why it starts a new line not *after* but *before* the slash, dot or whatever there is to structure a long url. Is this an english/dutch convention, completely different than paragraph wrapping? Or is it common usus, just me never noticed it outside ConTeXt??

I can't speak for Dutch conventions, but here are some rules concerning URL's according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition:

"Where it is necessary to break a URL or an e-mail address, no hyphens should be used. The break should be made between elements, after a colon, a slash, a double slash, or the symbol @ but before a period or any other punctuation or symbols. To avoid confusion, a URL that contains a hyphen should never be broken at the hyphen. If a particularly long element must be broken to avoid a seriously loose line, it should be broken between syllables according to the guidelines offered above." (7.44, p. 298)

the hyphen is a funny rule ... if an url is not to be hyphenated but just broken, than a hyphen is just a hyphen (anyway, context will not add a hyphen)

to country), though I would be surprised if it varied all that much, since URL's are a fairly new typographical entity.

just in case one didn't notice ... acrobat interprets the text stream and makes url's active (unless this is disabled) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

...

Hi,

God bless the command \hyphenatedurl{...} !

Only, I am wondering why it starts a new line not *after* but *before* the slash, dot or whatever there is to structure a long url. Is this an english/dutch convention, completely different than

i just took what i liked (i.e. found less confusing); since i hate long url's (one reason why one can have clickable ones with alternative rendering) i don't care to much either .. anything looks bad in running text -)

Sometimes, you need to refer to long URLs in bibliographies. For the tugboat articles, I ended up doing line breaking by hand :(

...

paragraph wrapping? Or is it common usus, just me never noticed it outside ConTeXt??

in mkiv you can set up your own preferences with

\sethyphenatedurlnormal \sethyphenatedurlbefore \sethyphenatedurlafter

and in mkii you can play with

\chardef\urlsplitmode = 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Did not know about this. Thanks. Aditya