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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] plan9 troff line break allowed within a single long word
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:15:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d01001281015s1840f160k2829c71dea4daf17@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

what is the way to allow plan9 troff to break a line somewhere within
a single long word but do not use a hyphen at the same time?
What I need is to allow a break within a long URL address, like
http://www.abc.cz/bla/bla/onother_long_bla/final_bla.
I want it could break a line just after the / characters.
Using \% leads to an unwanted hyphen.
GNU troff has \: for this purpose if I remember correctly.

So far I formatted the text, visually found the suitable place for the
break and insterted a space there. But, obviously, this isn't a good
solution.

Thanks
Ruda



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2010-01-28 18:15 Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2010-02-03 18:58 ` Rudolf Sykora

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