Re: URL question (also links, xref)

[Paul A. Rubin]

Richard Heck wrote:

So am I not understanding something?
Perhaps. The url.sty package isn't intended for the sort of use for 
which you are trying to use it. Its purpose is to allow you to use URLs 
in a document without running into line-break problems, the issue being 
that URLs can be (i) long and (ii) spaceless. Indeed, the documentation 
describes the \url command as simply a special form of \verb. So, all of 
that said, hyperref is indeed what you need here and, at present, LyX 
has no special support for it.

I'm the wrong person to express an opinion on this; about the only time 
I use links is inside Beamer presentations, and since Beamer loads 
hyperref automatically (I think), I always use hyperref and never use 
url.  That said, I'm inclined to believe that support for hyperref would 
be more useful than support for url.  The hyperref package has an option 
'breaklinks' (which I confess I've never used) that would seem to allow 
links to split across lines.  It's not as flexible as what url can do, 
but maybe it's good enough?

So if there are people who really prefer hyperref to url, I'd suggest 
entering an enhancement request in bugzilla to get menu support for it.

/Paul