Hi Dave,
The DocBook XSL stylesheets can already insert zero-width spaces for long URLs. See
this reference:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Ulinks.html#BreakLongUrls
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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From: "davep" <>
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] db 5, para formatting, fo output
> On 07/25/2011 03:41 PM, davep wrote:
>> Attached (if it gets through) the horrible looking result when justification is on
>> and the line includes a url of any length.
>> 1. I'd like to have justified text (param alignment='justified'), but if it
>> contains a url...
>> (Yes, not easy)
>> or
>> 2. How to persuade the formatter to hyphenate url's at / or similar to make it look
>> better?
>> Using xep
>
> Half a solution
>
> <xsl:template match="d:link">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="replace(.,'/','/​')"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> As a pre-process.
> Still looks ugly using justified text.... though OK when left justified.
>
> I somehow don't think I can do better than this.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
> regards
>
> --
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
>
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