LyX ⇒ URLs in BibTeX do not break

[bettinathenomad]

Hi everyone, I have a problem with a BibTeX-entry when compiling my LyX document. Even though I've tried both \usepackage{url} and \usepackage{breakurl}, the URL refuses to break.

This is the BibTeX entry:

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@book{RefWorks:351,
	author={Jean Grugel},
	year={2002},
	title={Working Paper 9/2002: Spain, the European Union and Latin America: Governance and Identity in the Making of 'New' Inter-Regionalism},
	publisher={Real Instituto Elcano},
	address={Madrid},
url={http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano\_eng/Content?WCM\_GLOBAL\_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano\_in/zonas\_in/dt9-2002}
}

and this is the entire LaTeX preamble:

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\documentclass[oneside,british]{book}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}

\makeatletter

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{breakurl}

\makeatother

\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}

What in the world is going on?
Thank you for your help - if you need anything else please do let me know

[bettinathenomad]

Never mind. Here's the solution: The URL in the bibtex-entry should look like this:

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url={\url{http://www.blabla.com/}}

Then it breaks just fine.

[Jean]

Never mind. Here's the solution: The URL in the bibtex-entry should look like this:

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url={\url{http://www.blabla.com/}}

Then it breaks just fine.

I have the same problem but this does not work for me... Any other suggestions?

[bettinathenomad]

Hi Jean, sorry for replying so late! Have you tried changing the bibliography style? that sometimes helps.
Also, I've discovered that it is helpful to use the [hyphens] option of the URL package. Then it separates URLs also at hyphens, which it does not do naturally. So in the LaTeX preamble you have to put

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\usepackage[hyphens]{url}

It did the trick for me. Good luck!