Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?

[Steve Izma]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:00:55PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Subject: Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?
> 
> I would add that inserting \: (the zero-width break point) before
> or after every forward slash in a URL, depending on the style
> guidelines of a document, saves a lot of manual fiddling when URLs
> must be broken across lines.  Not all the fiddling, but enough to
> warrant making it a first line of defence.

Yes, this is a good idea. There are also cases where you want \:
*before* a period, e.g., http://www.somethingVeryLong\:.org/etc,
since it's usually better to have the period start the next line
in order to emphasize that it's a continuation of the URL rather
than the end of a sentence. This might be considered a case of
choosing the least ugly solution.

        -- Steve

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