[hlx] \xlink and descresionary breaks

[Louis Taber]

Hi,

In my printed version of hyprlatex documents I want to place the entire URL of an external link.  This works fine.  I just can't get it to hyphenate. To make matters a bit more complicated I will frequently use various substitutions in the \xlink command.   For example:

\newcommand{\htmld}{\\http://uml.lt.tucson.az.us/hl2.2006-spring/}
....
If you are not using \systemA{} you can get the file at:
\xlink{\htmld{}files/flatpara.text}{files/flatpara.text}.
The file is a paragraph from the book \cit{Flatland} by Edwin A. Abbott.

I have tried many variations of this:
\newcommand{\htmld}{\\http://\-uml.lt.tucson.az.us/\-hl2.2006-spring/}
with no success so far.

I have been unable to pass my hyphenation requests through the \xlink command. What I end up doing is having to put line breaks in prior to the URLs.  In the printed document this can look quite bad. Does anyone know how to get this to work?

Thanks in advance.  - Louis