Bug#336743: try the breaklinks option

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

retitle 336743 Method needed for linewrapping hyperlinks with latex/dvips/ps2pdf
reassign 336743 tetex-base
thanks

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:

> * Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> [2005-11-01 17:34]:
>> Nearly.  It's more a way of saying that there's a bug in the chain
>> dvips/ps2pdf, and I don't know whether one of them can be blamed, or
>> whether it's the PostScript specification that does not allow this.
>
> Paul, do you happen to know the answer to this (you'll have to read
> the history of this bug to make sense of this).

I've got some new information on this:  It is a limitation in
PostScript, but one can work around it.  The breakurl package, available
on CTAN, does this:  it cuts the hyperlink in many parts at some
predefined chars and lets it be wrapped over the line.

>> Should we close this bug, reassign it to tetex-bin, or what?
>
> I filed it against tetex-bin... 

I wasn't aware that you did so - usually when people complain about this
they blame hyperref.  And since the maintainer of hyperref, Heiko
Oberdied, expressed interest in the problem, it might be that there will
be some "breakurls interface" in hyperref or similar.  Therefore I'm
retitling the bug, and we'll see what happens.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer