Karsten Hilbert wrote at 2020-3-24 10:34 +0100: >On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 08:20:32PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > ... >> I'm trying to figure out a way to handle URLs, and that's something >> that has its own governing standard, so the meanings of characters >> like hyphens is well defined. > >Agreed. > >More to the point, if anyone knows how to typographically >properly handle this it's the TeX community. Here's a thread: > > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3033/forcing-linebreaks-in-url
Page based output devices are more difficult: they have a fixed width. When the result targets a screen, horizontal scrolling is possible (even if it is not very convenient). There, preventing urls from being split may be an option. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
