Bug #33945 In PDF, URLs are hyphenated after 'http'
Submitted: 20 Jan 2008 4:32 Modified: 3 Mar 2008 19:41
Reporter: Jonas Sundin Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version: OS:Any
Assigned to: MC Brown CPU Architecture:Any

[20 Jan 2008 4:32] Jonas Sundin 
Description:
The 5.1 Cluster Certification Guide hyphenates http twice at the beginning. Not critical, but looks a bit silly.

How to repeat:
Read the book.
[28 Jan 2008 14:22] Susanne Ebrecht 
Please, can you tell us the link to the documentation.
[28 Jan 2008 14:25] Susanne Ebrecht 
It's on the back of the first piece of paper.
[28 Jan 2008 14:48] Stefan Hinz 
While we can't change the hyphenation for the printed book (it's anything but trivial to release an "update") we can try to make sure hyphenation works better for our PDF generation processes. For that reason, I'm changing the bug title (synopsis).
[3 Mar 2008 19:41] MC Brown 
The problem here is that the current DocBook XSL stylesheets don't let you configue this as explicitly as you would like. I cannot say 'don't break on this phrase'. I can specify a hyphenation character, but this doesn't prevent the hyphenation occurring within a word. 

I tried using a new release of the XSL stylesheets: I can specify characters which are valid to hyphenate on, so I can specify only to hyphenate on a period or slash, but it still doesn't prevent the URL from being hyphenated. 

We don't currently explicitly list words that can or can't be hyphenated, which would potentially resolve the issue, but I haven't tested that hypothesis yet. 

Until I can test that, I will have to mark this as unfixable.

It should be noted that despite these issues, it only affects the representation of the link - the actual link still works if you have a link capable PDF viewer.