How to hyphenate at the slash as well in \texttt?

[Ton 't Lam]

I have many \texttt{/very/long/path/} that I want to have hyphenated
at the slash. By default \texttt is not hyphenated, and the package
'hyphenat' seems to be a candidate. The issue is that I need to use
\fshyp{}very\fshyp{} etc. Another way is to split in \texttt{/very/long/}
\texttt{path/}. Not a joy if you have many path names.

What are the alternatives to have hyphenations in \texttt and PATHs.
Ideally the hyphanation should be

bla bla bla /very/long/
path/

and not

bla bla bla /very/long/- % dash
path/

--
Best Regards,
Ton 't Lam

[David Kastrup]

The FAQ (see signature) would have pointed you to url.sty.

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[Maurizio Loreti]

Ton 't Lam <ton-...@hp.com> writes:

> I have many \texttt{/very/long/path/}

> [snip]

FAQ. Check http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=setURL and
use url.sty .

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Maurizio Loreti http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy ROT13: ybe...@cq.vasa.vg

[Ton 't Lam]

Thank you both, Maurizio and David.

url{} does what I want.

$ more try.tex
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[obeyspaces,spaces]{url}
\begin{document}
bla bla bla % much more
\url{/abc/abc/abc}
bla bla bla
\url{abc abc abc}
\end{document}

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Best Regards,
Ton 't Lam

[Ton 't Lam]

> $ more try.tex
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \usepackage[obeyspaces,spaces]{url}
> \begin{document}
> bla bla bla % much more
> \url{/abc/abc/abc}
> bla bla bla
> \url{abc abc abc}
> \end{document}

P.S.

If you use the hyperref package then \url{/var/adm} will get referenced as well.
The solution is to use the path.sty. E.g. \path|/var/adm|

[Robin Fairbairns]

Ton 't Lam <ton-...@hp.com> writes (quoting who knows who?):

>> $ more try.tex
>> \documentclass{minimal}
>> \usepackage[obeyspaces,spaces]{url}
>> \begin{document}
>> bla bla bla % much more
>> \url{/abc/abc/abc}
>> bla bla bla
>> \url{abc abc abc}
>> \end{document}
>
>P.S.
>
>If you use the hyperref package then \url{/var/adm} will get
>referenced as well.

itym "made into an anchor".

>The solution is to use the path.sty. E.g. \path|/var/adm|

why? at the time it was released i found path.sty deeply pleasing,
but as a latex package it's pretty hopeless. among other things, it's
irremediably "fragile": back in 1994 i tried to use it as a basis for
the first printed edition of the faq, and had to give up. the faq
went on for ages with a weird set of macros for urls and paths and
things for ages until i finally got around to switching to \urldef
from of the url package.

i'ld say, use \path from url, and consign path.sty to its honourable
retirement.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

[Ton 't Lam]

Robin Fairbairns wrote:

>
> itym "made into an anchor".
>
> >The solution is to use the path.sty. E.g. \path|/var/adm|
>
> why? at the time it was released i found path.sty deeply pleasing,
> but as a latex package it's pretty hopeless. among other things, it's
> irremediably "fragile": back in 1994 i tried to use it as a basis for
> the first printed edition of the faq, and had to give up. the faq
> went on for ages with a weird set of macros for urls and paths and
> things for ages until i finally got around to switching to \urldef
> from of the url package.
>
> i'ld say, use \path from url, and consign path.sty to its honourable
> retirement.
> --
> Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

But then you need to load url in advance

\usepackage[obeyspaces,spaces]{url}
\usepackage[pdftex,colorlinks,breaklinks=true]{hyperref}
...
\path{/my/very/log/path}

At least I don't know how to set obeyspaces,spaces afterwards.
I need this to prevent overfilled lines.

With regards to path.sty, I propose to obsolete that package,
or have a warning somewhere. The FAQ 151 is a bit to advertizing
for path.sty