From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42368 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: hyphenatedurl (WHY?) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:46:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4877D4A8.9070001@wxs.nl> References: <42EC6575-1CE2-4B5C-95B5-F2D78119B993@st.estfiles.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215812916 609 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2008 21:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:48:36 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 11 23:49:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KHQUS-0008Pq-TG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:49:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED931FC93; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:48:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27838-04-7; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:47:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B921FC20; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:47:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D1F1FC06 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:46:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27782-03-4 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:46:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD811FCF4 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:46:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.11]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 1731-1840426 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:46:23 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.11 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42368 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________