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Re: A good tag for representing a very long URL
- From: Dave Pawson <daveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- To: "Bang, Steinar" <Steinar dot bang at tandbergtv dot com>,'docbook-apps' <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:08:01 +0000
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: A good tag for representing a very long URL
At 09:44 25/01/2002 +0100, Bang, Steinar wrote:
>What would be a good DocBook tag for representing very long
>URLs?
>
>I've tried <userinput> and <programlisting>, but the problem
>is that they become too long, when rendered by Fop. The
>URLs continue past the right edge of the paper.
Deliberate \ on the end of a line is a convention I've adopted.
<literallayout>
http:// very long url \
and this is the rest
</literallayout>
HTH DaveP