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A tiny amount of stretchable space is also inserted around these characters to help with line breaking. </p> <p>For HTML output, modern browsers will also do line breaking within displayed urls. If you need to allow breaks at other characters you can insert <code>@/</code> as needed (see <a href="Line-Breaks.html"><code>@*</code> and <code>@/</code>: Generate and Allow Line Breaks</a>). </p> <span id="index-urefbreakstyle"></span> <p>By default, in TeX any such breaks at special characters will occur after the character. Some people prefer such breaks to happen before the special character. This can be controlled with the <code>@urefbreakstyle</code> command (this command has effect only in TeX): </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@urefbreakstyle <var>how</var> </pre></div> <p>where the argument <var>how</var> is one of these words: </p> <span id="index-after_002c-value-for-_0040urefbreakstyle"></span> <span id="index-before_002c-value-for-_0040urefbreakstyle"></span> <span id="index-none_002c-value-for-_0040urefbreakstyle"></span> <dl compact="compact"> <dt><span>‘<samp>after</samp>’</span></dt> <dd><p>(the default) Potentially break after the special characters. </p></dd> <dt><span>‘<samp>before</samp>’</span></dt> <dd><p>Potentially break before the special characters. </p></dd> <dt><span>‘<samp>none</samp>’</span></dt> <dd><p>Do not consider breaking at the special characters at all; any potential breaks must be manually inserted. </p></dd> </dl> </div> </body> </html>