>>> texinfo.tex is supposed to allow breaking at some characters but
>>> not the hyphen. I think breaking at "/" would be sufficient in
>>> the example you give. The problem is how to achieve this.
>
> I was thinking something like \hfil\allowbreak\hskip 0pt plus -1fil
> to allow a break at particular characters wherever they occur in the
> line with the rest of the line being filled up with empty space, but
> this probably wouldn't look very good in some cases. (Maybe
> \discretionary{}{}{} instead of \allowbreak if breaking a URL is to
> be thought of as "hyphenation".)
Let's see what you are coming up with :-)
> [...] maybe something like "@urefbreakhyphen true" and
> "@urefbreakhyphen false" is more consistent with existing Texinfo
> commands.
This is fine with me.
Werner
