Re: [NTG-context] hyphenatedurl (WHY?)

Jesse Alama wrote:

Steffen Wolfrum writes:

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God bless the command \hyphenatedurl{...} !

Only, I am wondering why it starts a new line not *after* but *before* the slash, dot or whatever there is to structure a long url. Is this an english/dutch convention, completely different than paragraph wrapping? Or is it common usus, just me never noticed it outside ConTeXt??

I can't speak for Dutch conventions, but here are some rules concerning URL's according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition:

"Where it is necessary to break a URL or an e-mail address, no hyphens should be used. The break should be made between elements, after a colon, a slash, a double slash, or the symbol @ but before a period or any other punctuation or symbols. To avoid confusion, a URL that contains a hyphen should never be broken at the hyphen. If a particularly long element must be broken to avoid a seriously loose line, it should be broken between syllables according to the guidelines offered above." (7.44, p. 298)

the hyphen is a funny rule ... if an url is not to be hyphenated but just broken, than a hyphen is just a hyphen (anyway, context will not add a hyphen)

to country), though I would be surprised if it varied all that much, since URL's are a fairly new typographical entity.

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