Re: filter to break urls in HTML

[Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Dear Pablo,

Sorry that I took over 90 minutes (!) this time but here is your
filter nevertheless.

https://gist.github.com/mpickering/fdc747b9c8306659cb43

Example output:

```
pandoc -f markdown -t native --filter=pablourl.hs
<http://www.link.com#a=b.php?what>
[Para [Link [Str
"http://www\33283.\33283link\33283.\33283com\33283#\33283a\33283=\33283b\33283.\33283php\33283?\33283what"]
("http://www.link.com#a=b.php?what","")]]
```
I hope this satisfies your needs and good luck with your book.



On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Pablo Rodríguez <oinos-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> having url in HTML documents (especially ePub files) leads to some weird
> line breaks.
>
> I discovered that the best way to break urls in HTML is to put zero
> width spaces where the url could be broken at.
>
> I would need a filter that parses the following url:
>
>     <http://www.link.com#a=b.php?what>
>
> in HTML as:
>
>     <a href="http://www.link.com#a=b.php?what">http://&#8203;
>     www&#8203;.&#8203;link&#8203;.&#8203;com&#8203;#&#8203;a&#8203;=
>     &#8203;b&#8203;.&#8203;php&#8203;?&#8203;what</a>
>
> These are two basic rules:
>
> There is no zero-width space (&#8203;) before the string "://" (without
> quotes).
>
> After that, any character not pertaining to ranges [0-9A-Za-z] should
> have a &#8203; before and after.
>
> I think this would be the easiest way to implement it (instead of
> defining the list of characters that should have the zero-width space
> before and after).
>
> I think this filter could be useful for anyone. For me this is important
> for a book that I plan to write about pandoc (and git) for authors.
> (Otherwise, paragraphs containing urls look really weird in some cases.)
>
> Would a kind soul provide me with this kind of filter?
>
> Many thanks for your help,
>
>
> Pablo
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