forced line breaks, URLs, and justified text

[Alan Litchfield]

Just exactly what I thought too. Or, ...

You could do both. Have the clickable text linked to a URL and have  
the footnote too. And, if you use the URL linking thing and choose to  
use hard returns to break long URLs, you can make the first line of  
the broken URL your linked from text. Sorry, Jeremy, if that is what  
you meant.

If the footnotes are ragged right and not justified that ought to  
alleviate some of the problems for you too. I've done that before and  
the client never noticed - it was the body text they read and checked  
for justification, not figure text and footnotes.

Alan

On 20/10/2007, at 10:02 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:07:55 -0700, "Tina Ricks"
> <kristina.ricks at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Thinking outside the box a bit...  If this book is distributed
> as a PDF, or in HTML, you could tuck the URLs into hypertext
> markers, and put text that breaks normally in as the hotspot.
> That would make links clickable, which they may not be if the
> URL is just plain text.
>
> If it's print-only, you could consider using footnotes for the
> URLs.  That would look normal for a textbook, and since each
> one starts a new line, would eliminate most linebreak issues.
> Where needed, you could put in discretionary hyphens, or forced
> line breaks, and the lack of justification in a footnote would
> not be likely to be noticed...  Once you made such a tweak, it
> would not need to be changed later, so the maintenance issue
> goes away too.
>
> Just a thought...

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