list environment lines being truncated

Question

I am using the itemize environment to generate a list of web applications and thheir URLs as follows:

\documentclass{11pt,letter]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item[site name:]{\url{https://this-is-a-very-long-url.example.com}}
\item[site2 name]{\url{https://this-is-an-even-longer-url-so-that-hopefully-it-will-go-beyond-the-line.example.com}}
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

When I generate the pdf document, the site urls get truncated because they are too long to fit next to the site name on the same line.

Is there a way to have the text display like this?

site name:
  site url
site2 name:
  site2 url

Obviously I could use a verbatim or fancyvbr environment to accomplish this, but I would like the bullets from the list environment as well.

any help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use \usepackage[hyphens]{url}:

Notes:

• The optional paramater to \item overrides the bullet.
• There is no mandator paramater to \item. Thusn, no need to have an additional {} around the \url.

Code:

\documentclass[11pt,letter]{article}
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}

\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item[site name:] \url{https://this-is-a-very-long-url.example.com}
\item[site2 name] \url{https://this-is-an-even-longer-url-so-that-hopefully-it-will-go-beyond-the-line.example.com}
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

Answer 2

You can use the description style nextline from enumitem and load url with the [hyphens] option:

\documentclass[11pt, letter]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}

\begin{document}

\begin{description}[style=nextline, font=\normalfont]
\item[Site name:] \url{https://this-is-a-very-long-url.example.com}
\item[Site2 name]\url{https://this-is-an-even-longer-url-so-that-hopefully-it-will-go-beyond-the-line.example.com}
\end{description}

\end{document}