<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">Hi, I stumpled upon a bug in bibtex and bibtex8, using biblatex, where they seem to add a newline if some parameter to a verb is too long. I've added a minimum working sample at the end.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">Wrong output:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">--- snip ---</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    \verb{url}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    \verb</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">  <a href="https://example.com/some/really/really/long/and/winding/path/to/documen">https://example.com/some/really/really/long/and/winding/path/to/documen</a></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    \verb t.html</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    \endverb</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">--- /snip ---</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">Expected output:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">--- snip ---</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    \verb{url}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    \verb <a href="https://example.com/some/really/really/long/and/winding/path/to/documen">https://example.com/some/really/really/long/and/winding/path/to/documen</a></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    \verb t.html</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    \endverb</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">--- /snip ---</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">File mwe.tex:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">\begin{filecontents*}{mwe.bib}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">@online{sampleurl,</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    title={sample},</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    author={{Sample Sampleson}},</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">    url={<a href="https://example.com/some/really/really/long/and/winding/path/to/document.html">https://example.com/some/really/really/long/and/winding/path/to/document.html</a>},</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">},</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">\end{filecontents*}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">\documentclass{article}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">\usepackage[backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">%\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">\addbibresource{mwe.bib}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">\begin{document}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">See \cite{sampleurl}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">\printbibliography</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">\end{document}</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"></div>