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12 changes: 10 additions & 2 deletions gap/AutoDocMainFunction.gi
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InstallGlobalFunction( ExtractTitleInfoFromPackageInfo,
function( pkginfo )
local title_rec, i, tmp_list, j, author_rec, author_string;
local title_rec, i, tmp_list, j, author_rec, author_string, max_url_len, no_of_lines, k;

if IsBound( pkginfo.AutoDoc ) and IsBound( pkginfo.AutoDoc.TitlePage ) then
title_rec := ShallowCopy( pkginfo.AutoDoc.TitlePage );
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AUTODOC_APPEND_STRING_ITERATIVE( author_string, "<Email>", author_rec.Email, "</Email>" );
fi;
if IsBound( author_rec.WWWHome ) then
AUTODOC_APPEND_STRING_ITERATIVE( author_string, "<Homepage>", author_rec.WWWHome, "</Homepage>" );
# maximum URL length that still fits on one line in the PDF appears to be 72
max_url_len := 72;
AUTODOC_APPEND_STRING_ITERATIVE( author_string, "<Homepage><Link>", author_rec.WWWHome, "</Link><LinkText>" );
no_of_lines := QuoInt( Length( author_rec.WWWHome ), max_url_len ) + 1;
for k in [1.. no_of_lines - 1] do
AUTODOC_APPEND_STRING_ITERATIVE( author_string, author_rec.WWWHome{ [(k-1) * max_url_len + 1 .. k * max_url_len] }, "<Br/>" );
od;
AUTODOC_APPEND_STRING_ITERATIVE( author_string,
author_rec.WWWHome{ [(no_of_lines - 1) * max_url_len + 1 .. Length( author_rec.WWWHome )] }, "</LinkText></Homepage>" );
fi;
title_rec.Author[ i ] := author_string;
i := i + 1;
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