Ah very nice.

On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 15:28, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 20:10:07 +0100
> Léo Rebetez <leo.rebe...@stronzi.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new on lyx, I'll use it mainly for publishing books. I'm
> > searching how to break a too long url like this one:
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.ukuk2012jun12policestopandsearchblackpeople
>
> There are two different accommodations:
>
> 1. Breaking other lines to accommodate a well-behaved URL
> 2. Breaking the URL itself
>
> On my computer with LyX 2.3.1, a long URL walks beyond the right margin
> if I usepackage{hyperref}, which of course we all do. However, if I put
> \sloppy at the end of the paragraph with the URL, that paragraph breaks
> lines so as to put the whole URL on a line without busting the right
> margin (xetex), or breaks the whole URL itself (LuaTeX). Then you put
> \fussy and the end of the next paragraph to bring back the nice
> typesetting you expect from LyX.
>
> If the result is too ugly, you might be able to make it a little bit
> better by cutting down on the 9999% \tolerance that \sloppy implies:
>
> \sloppy\tolerance=1000%
>
> The point is, *anything* is better than letting a URL or any other text
> walk off the right edge of the paper, and these techniques prevent that
> unless the URL is longer than the paper is wide. Getting it to actually
> be pretty is lt as an exercise to the readder , but never forget
> legible trumps pretty every time.
>
> I'm attaching a 2.8K MWE (Minimum Working Example) with the preceding
> accommodations.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> January 2019 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust
>


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