How to insert invisible linebreaks in urls?

Question

I'm using biblatex and I'm quoting a commit on github that looks like this:

http://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/693d92a1bbc9e42681c42ed190bd42b636ca876f

The biblatex-entry looks like this,

@online{Torvalds11,
  author = {Linus Torvalds},
  title = {Linux Makefile: Commit 693d92a},
  url = {http://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/693d92a1bbc9e42681c42ed190bd42b636ca876f}
}

The result looks like this.

Screenshot of bib entry

UI tried to insert a space character but that didn't work. How to force latex to break that url at the end of the line?

MWE:

\documentclass{report}
 \usepackage[english]{babel}
 \usepackage{lipsum}
 \usepackage{biblatex}
  \bibliography{mwe}
 \usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
 \usepackage{hyperref}

 \begin{document}
  \lipsum[100]\cite{Torvalds11}
  \printbibliography
 \end{document}

I found this: How to deal with bibliography items containing long URLs? But the suggested answers are not compatible with my document as I'm using hyperref package already and it should automatically break urls at the end of the lines. I guess this url is a special problem.

Did you try discretionary hyphens (\-)in the URL? Does \hyphenation remove the error? Maybe try out \hyp from the hyphenat package. (cf. Wikibooks article on Hyphenation) — brian-ammon, Jun 06 '12 at 09:32

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 09:37

The biblatex package has a facility for this:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@online{Torvalds11,
  author = {Linus Torvalds},
  title = {Linux Makefile: Commit 693d92a},
  url = {http://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/693d92a1bbc9e42681c42ed190bd42b636ca876f}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{biblatex}

\setcounter{biburlnumpenalty}{9000}
\setcounter{biburlucpenalty}{9000}
\setcounter{biburllcpenalty}{9000}

\bibliography{\jobname}

\usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[100]\cite{Torvalds11}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

However, this affects all URLs.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '12 at 11:47

2

I'd resort to a work-around and use a URL shortener for this URL [1], since noone is going to type in this URL anyways...

[1] maybe even github's own: https://github.com/blog/985-git-io-github-url-shortener

answered Jun 06 '12 at 11:47

Habi

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How to insert invisible linebreaks in urls?

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