On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 10:59:41PM +0100, R. Diez wrote: > > First of all, thanks for your quick response. > > > [...] > > There is not always a good place to break a URL. > > I do not know much about Textinfo etc., but I'll risk a naive question > nevertheless. The documentation you linked states "TeX allows line breaking > within URLs at only a few characters". Wouldn't it be better if the URL could > be broken at an arbitrary position? That way, the length to cut could be made > a function of some automatic fill factor, and wouldn't depend on where the > URL happens to have some special break points.
As you know from the manual, an arbitrary position to break an URL is given by @/. > > It may not be visually appealing to cut at a seemingly arbitrary position, > but the alternative implementation often does not produce visually appealing > results anyway. > I would imagine that a new version of the Texinfo tools will trickle down > only after a few years. > > Is this space setting in \urefallowbreak something the user can tweak with > the current version in most Linux distributions? Or is that a hard-coded > value? It is hard-coded. Users can use a particular version of texinfo.tex by placing the file in the directory with the Texinfo source files.
