forced line breaks, URLs, and justified text

[Tina Ricks]

Hi all,

 

Would love some help with forced line breaks in justified text.

 

The text is justified (not my choice, it's what the client wants). This is a
textbook, and there are a lot of references to URLs. I'm trying to follow
the Chicago Manual of Style's guidelines on breaks in URLs, which
specifically says do not allow hyphenation (which would make the URL no
longer correct), break at slashes, before periods, and so on.

 

If I put in a line break (Ctrl-Enter), then Frame also discontinues the
proportional spacing that makes the text justified, for that line only. I
can add a slash to the allowed characters for line breaks (Format > Document
> Text Options), but I can't add a period to the text options, or I get
weird effects like a line break placing a lone right quote on the next line.
Breaking at slashes doesn't always get a reasonable length line in a URL.

 

 I'm guessing this is the level of line and character control I would get
with something like InDesign, but I couldn't stomach InDesign's lack of
automatic cross references. Does anyone know how to do this in Frame-break
lines exactly where I want them, but still maintain justified text?

 

Tina Ricks | kristina.ricks at verizon.net
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