Re: extended @uref command? (was: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 19:57:24 +0200
> 
> ACK.  But in the printed version (produced with texi2dvi) looks like
> this:
> 
> | The Emacs Lisp List (ELL)
> | (http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html)
> 
> Especially with long URLs, this isn't very readable and often leeds to
> `underfull \hbox'es.

It is a long-standing issue with Texinfo to teach it to hyphenate
URLs.  I hope some day this will be solved.

> Therefore, I use a macro @rsuref, producing a footnote in non-html
> output:

This was suggested in the past, perhaps even by you.  Personally, I
don't like this solution, but that's me.