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From: Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: hyphenatedurl (WHY?)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:41:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C520978A-138F-48B8-8D60-C2DC46CEFF09@st.estfiles.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807111849400.18605@nqv-yncgbc>


Am 12.07.2008 um 00:50 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> 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

That's it!

> Did not know about this. Thanks.

Now it is written down ... Googleable ;o)

I am happy for every secret undocumented command that is mentioned on  
this list.
Somehow this list's archive actually is the missing ConTeXt-manual ...


Steffen

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-12  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11 19:59 Steffen Wolfrum
2008-07-11 20:17 ` Jesse Alama
2008-07-11 21:46   ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-11 21:43 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-11 22:50   ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-07-12  5:41     ` Steffen Wolfrum [this message]

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