How Do I Break a URL?

GO TO SOURCE

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, April 18, 2002: Everyone in publishing is familiar with the Chicago Manual of Style, the bible of the industry with its comprehensive rules for the English language into print. Now they’ve established a web site, “source” above, where you can find out the latest developments, or even ask questions. For example, web url addresses often break (automatically hyphenate) in the middle of text, introducing a spurious hyphen in the address. What to do? Part of their lengthy analysis, “Break the word between syllables but omit the hyphen.”