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Date: Wed,  3 Feb 2010 19:58:57 +0100
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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 troff line break allowed within a single long word
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so no advice? :)
R

On 28 January 2010 19:15, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>