Re: URL in Bibliography @Reference

[Gabor Greif]

Am 30.05.2008 um 23:15 schrieb Jeff Kingston:

> > Is there a way to specify "word breaking" for URLs
> > in bibliography references?
>
> The User's Guide says that special arrangements are
> made within the @URL option of reference entries to
> allow URL's to be included unquoted, in which case
> the / characters in them are treated as line break
> points.  It sounds as though you are using @URL but
> it is not working for you as described.  In that
> case, post a small example and I will look at it.

Thanks, Jeff,

removing the quotes from around URLs in my .ld file immediately  
resolved the problem.
The quotes came form a BibTeX->lout converter that I wrote and that  
assumed that
the slashes in the URL need quoting, so it quoted the whole thing :-/

Thanks again,

                Gabor


> There is no way to include a URL in the other
> fields of a @Reference except by enclosing it
> in quotes, which will make it unbreakable, unless
> you want to hack your way through
>
>     "http://www.it.usyd/edu.au/"; &- "~jeff"
>
> and the like.  But the intention is that this
> sort of thing is not necessary in the @URL field.
>
> Jeff