Text Formatting ⇒ Long URL will not line-break at hyphen

[ptrcao]

I have a long URL wrapping problem, despite invoking all the relevant packages normally used to remedy this. URLs elsewhere wrap fine, just this one doesn't:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{verbatim} %for commenting
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[urlbordercolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage{breakurl}
\title{SRS}
\author{XXX}
\begin{document}
...


Non-standalone exemplars used in environments other than forums include:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Microsoft Word Equation Editor (Proprietary).  \url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Equation_Editor}
\item GoogleDocs is equipped with their own version of equation editor, but in the manner discussed above preview and insert are separate.  See \url{http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-docs-has-equation-editor.html}.
\end{enumerate}

The proprietary Mathematica has been suggested as relevant, but based on my limited experience of it, I am not aware that it includes an equation editor per se.\\

Can you clever cookies help me troubleshoot this?

I'm aware that the order in which the packets are invoked matter (apparently because of overriding and conflicts), and I've tried the shuffle them around but I get "option conflict" errors for any other order I've tried so far, though I can't say I've exhaustively tried every order.

[shadgrind]

The breakurl package only works when using the latex->dvi->ps->pdf method; it has no effect when using pdflatex. The problem appears to be with using a fixed-width font for the URLs, which is the default. When I used pdflatex with the url package and put

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\urlstyle{rm}

in the preamble so that the roman-style font is used, it split your long URL properly:

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This didn't work with plain latex. If using plain latex, you'll need to use the breakurl package with the [hyphenbreaks] option. It sucks if you want to use a fixed-width font, but that's the only solution I could find.

[ptrcao]

The problem appears to be with using a fixed-width font for the URLs.

Can you please explain why using a fixed-width font for URLs causes this problem?

Also, I'm...not sure if it's me but it still occurs elsewhere even in rm url style:

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[shadgrind]

Can you please explain why using a fixed-width font for URLs causes this problem?

No, I can't.
I suppose you could contact the author of the url package.

[ptrcao]

I see, so there's nothing to be done for this persisting instance either?:

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