John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does your package interpret the URL that's passed in? > > Nope, not at all. URLs are passed through verbatim; authors can always add > \: themselves, although toggling word-breakage is probably better achieved > using a "no-wrap" macro.
I think that's the solution www.tmac used at first. That's why URLs would run off the right margin and authors were forced to add \: after every slash. I like the current way www.tmac is implemented, with more intelligent URL line breaking. It lets authors focus on the writing, not the typesetting. --b9 P.S. I was asking about .index because I was trying to figure out if a certain series of characters was present in a string. In particular, I wanted to detect if people had used "\:" in a URL so I could warn them that it would be used verbatim as the link which is probably not what they want. It turned out I didn't need .index as "\:" is a single character so I could loop through the string. No need to implement the Boyer-Moore algorithm in Groff. ;-)
