[xep-support] hyphenation for url's

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2003-06-24 09:42 +0200, Jack Broeren wrote:
>I can I tell xep to hyphenate a long string like the url
>(e.g. http://www,xep-support.com/one/question/at/the/time/please.htm)
>on the chars : or / (or .)

I needed to do this for the long XPath addresses used in my UBL 
stylesheets, by preventing unwanted breaks and promoting breaks at the "/" 
characters.

I did this by a recursive loop through the string adding zero-width space 
​ characters to the location either immediately before or 
immediately after the "/" characters (choose based on what you want to see 
at the line break).

When the resulting string was short enough for my table column, the 
zero-width spaces cannot be seen.  When the string was too long, the breaks 
were done at the embedded zero-width spaces.

I hope this helps.

.......................... Ken


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