Tina Ricks wrote:
Hi all,
Would love some help with forced line breaks in justified text.
The text is justified (not my choice, it's what the client wants). This is a
textbook, and there are a lot of references to URLs. I'm trying to follow
the Chicago Manual of Style's guidelines on breaks in URLs, which
specifically says do not allow hyphenation (which would make the URL no
longer correct), break at slashes, before periods, and so on.
If I put in a line break (Ctrl-Enter), then Frame also discontinues the
proportional spacing that makes the text justified, for that line only. I
can add a slash to the allowed characters for line breaks (Format > Document
Text Options), but I can't add a period to the text options, or I get
weird effects like a line break placing a lone right quote on the next line.
Breaking at slashes doesn't always get a reasonable length line in a URL.
I'm guessing this is the level of line and character control I would get
with something like InDesign, but I couldn't stomach InDesign's lack of
automatic cross references. Does anyone know how to do this in Frame-break
lines exactly where I want them, but still maintain justified text?
Tina Ricks | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Editor
Trial Guides, LLC
503-531-8485
Tina,
Have you tried just putting in a space? FM should then treat the
remaining part of the URL as a single word and wrap it to the following
line. (Of course, it's a maintenance headache, but then so are the
Ctrl-Enters.)
Another approach that may or may not be acceptable to the author is to
use a service like tinyurl.com to reduce the length of URLs. For example,
http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com/products/transmitters/txu-30/
is reduced to
http://tinyurl.com/2s3493
That won't eliminate the line-break problem, but would reduce the number
of occurrences. Or maybe with that approach you could move the URL
references into a bordered or shaded table cell set off in some way from
the body text; then you could have a very uniform appearance, because
the tinyurls are all the same length.
HTH,
--
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325
srogers phoenix-geophysics com
"On the contrary."
-- Henrik Ibsen (last words, after a nurse said he "seemed a little
better.")
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