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• • February 4, 2019 at 5:15 am #114123
    Rain Saukas

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    I’m working on a book with a lot of URLs for footnotes and I’m struggling with hyphenating the URLs in the correct position. I’m using the Adobe Single-line Composer to get a paragraph that spans the entire column. (The regular Paragraph composer makes a very ugly and a short paragraph).

    I have the hyphenation turned off and I’m getting horrible line endings. For example:
    —–
    Orlove, Raphael, “Angry Owners Sue Tesla for Using Them as Beta testers,” Jalopnik,
    April 20, 2017, https://jalopnik.com/
    angry-owners-sue-tesla-for-using-them-as-beta-testers-o-1794503348.
    —–

    What I would like to get is something like this:
    —–
    Orlove, Raphael, “Angry Owners Sue Tesla for Using Them as Beta testers,” Jalopnik,
    April 20, 2017, https://jalopnik.com/angry-owners-sue-tesla-for-using-them-as-beta-
    testers-o-1794503348.
    —–

    And InDesign does not automatically hyphen on the available hyphens. Discretionary hyphens do not work. I don’t want to force a line break either since eventually the book will be converted to an ePub.

  • February 7, 2019 at 4:58 pm #114220
    John McKercher

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    Typically I go through all my URLs manually in order to get them to break correctly. This means going through and placing discretionary line breaks wherever I want the URL to break. Sometimes you may need to add a discretionary hyphen after the character where you want the break to occur to force the break to the right place.
    I also follow the Chicago style which says to break the URL before instances of punctuation. In your example above I would break it so that the hyphen moves down to the second line otherwise the reader may be confused as to whether the hyphen should be include in the web address or not. In your example it could just be the word “betatesters being hyphenated by InDesign.

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