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RE: A good tag for representing a very long URL
- From: David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>
- To: "Bang, Steinar" <Steinar dot bang at tandbergtv dot com>,docbook-apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:01:03 -0600
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: A good tag for representing a very long URL
Also take a look at this post:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200201/msg00267.html
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bang, Steinar [mailto:Steinar.bang@tandbergtv.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:52 AM
> To: 'docbook-apps'
> Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: A good tag for representing a very long URL
>
>
> I wrote earlier:
>
> > What would be a good DocBook tag for representing very long
> > URLs?
>
> > I've tried <userinput> and <programlisting>, but the problem
> > is that they become too long, when rendered by Fop. The
> > URLs continue past the right edge of the paper.
>
> > I guess I would like something that breaks the URL on
> > '/' or '.'.
>
> I just tried <command>, and it gave a better result with
> Fop. I guess it won't break on '/' or '.', but the
> chosen font was more compact, so it fits on a single line.