DOI overstretching in references

[andreifoldes]

Greetings,

Describe the bug
I notice some of my references are overstretching the page margins. It seems that bookdown/thesisdown is unsure when to calculate a newline for the DOI URL. It does seem to be okay with splitting the DOI if there is a dash "-" in it but unwilling otherwise (for example ".")

To Reproduce
In screenshot it is this reference that is acting up: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0269439

Expected behavior
I believe all references should fit in the page margin DOI included.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10

packageVersion("thesisdown")
[1] ‘0.2.0.9000’

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[ismayc]

Hey there. Thanks for flagging. I'd guess this is more of a LaTeX issue. I'll do some Stack Overflow research when I get a chance to see if there are some additional settings to be added to get this working there.

[andreifoldes]

Thanks, I'll try to look into it too this weekend!

[ismayc]

I haven’t been able to test this yet, but can you try adding in this line in place of \usepackage{hyperref} to the LaTeX template?

\usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref}

[andreifoldes]

Hi
I replaced
\usepackage{hyperref} with
\usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref} in the template.tex file. No success so far..

[ismayc]

OK. More things to try:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50098235/bookdown-text-references-not-working-if-url-contains-special-characters
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49990699/bookdown-add-url-as-footnote

[ismayc]

Another option would be to create short URLs using a site like tinyurl or bit.ly as well. You could then have a table referencing what those links go to that is not in the actual references section that has these spacing limitations.

[andreifoldes]

I think that's a very good idea! I will go over with tinyurl over the problematic ones over the weekend!

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