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

[David Cramer <dcramer@broadjump.com>]

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.