Re: Texinfo - manual line breaks in URLs?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The patch did not solve the problem.

OK.  It was a shot into the dark.

> A glance into the texi2dvi code showed that rather this tool causes
> the problem.  See
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/diff/util/texi2dvi?id=2405caa6c7ab01d888899af56aa056b1e77485ba

Thanks for investigating this!

> Since my distro is not that old, I do not think it would be a good
> idea to require a newer texinfo version, so I would suggest that we
> stick with texinfo.tex from
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/util/texi2dvi?id=77390b679e5f4833661fda9f34fd7da119bb942e

I disagree.  While this is the right way for the next development
version, in the long run the new indexing code has advantages.  For
example, right now we have index entries like

  tablature .............................  23
  tablature, and beams ..................  14
  tablature, and harmonic indications ... 234
  tablature, and harmonics .............. 345
  tablature, and polyphony .............. 100
  tablature, and slides .................  48
  ...

With the new code it will be possible to have this condensed to

  tablature .............................  23
    and beams ...........................  14
    and harmonic indications ............ 234
    and harmonics ....................... 345
    and polyphony ....................... 100
    and slides ..........................  48
  ...

which enormously increases the legibility IMHO.

It seems that the required change in `texi2dvi` is a one-liner.  We
could test that and apply the patch by ourselves if necessary.


    Werner