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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: A good tag for representing a very long URL

From: Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Bang, Steinar" <Steinar.bang@tandbergtv.com>,'docbook-apps' <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:08:01 +0000

At 09:44 25/01/2002 +0100, Bang, Steinar wrote:
>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.

Deliberate \ on the end of a line is a convention I've adopted.
<literallayout>
http:// very   long url \
and this is the rest
</literallayout>

HTH DaveP