Re: Format-agnostic hyperlinks

[John Gardner]

In any case, handling line-wrapping isn't the responsibility of the
hyperlink macro. Mono is more of a general-purpose utility-belt for
low-level Roff programming than a high-level document preparation package
(in the sense of ms, mm, mom, mdoc, etc).

No need to implement the Boyer-Moore algorithm in Groff. ;-)


Points for even knowing what that is. 😉


On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 16:54, B 9 <hackerb9@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> John Gardner <gardnerjohng@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. ;-)
>
>