On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:00:55PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > Subject: Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF? > > I would add that inserting \: (the zero-width break point) before > or after every forward slash in a URL, depending on the style > guidelines of a document, saves a lot of manual fiddling when URLs > must be broken across lines. Not all the fiddling, but enough to > warrant making it a first line of defence.
Yes, this is a good idea. There are also cases where you want \: *before* a period, e.g., http://www.somethingVeryLong\:.org/etc, since it's usually better to have the period start the next line in order to emphasize that it's a continuation of the URL rather than the end of a sentence. This might be considered a case of choosing the least ugly solution. -- Steve -- Steve Izma - Home: 35 Locust St., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2H 1W6 E-mail: si...@golden.net phone: 519-745-1313 cell (text only; not frequently checked): 519-998-2684 == I have always felt the necessity to verify what to many seemed a simple multiplication table. -- Ilya Ehrenburg (Soviet author and critic; he's not talking about mathematics)
