RE: Period at the end of a link or not?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

When I'm dealing with short links that can be a part of a sentence without
getting ugly, then I treat the links as words and follow links with a period
if they are the last word of the sentence.  When I am dealing with long or
unruly links, then I try to offset those links as their own paragraphs or
list items that do not end with periods.  I also try to keep the convention
that I choose consistent throughout the documentation.

Lauren

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> Subject: Period at the end of a link or not?
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> We are writing a "Getting Started Guide". There are a couple 
> of sentences
> with long links: i.e., to download XYZ, you can do it from 
> here (of couse we
> don't write here because it is a pdf and because we want the 
> user to see the
> path even if it is long).
> 
> My colleague thinks it should have a period at the end of the 
> link to make
> it a sentence and to be grammatically correct. Is this truly 
> a grammatical
> sentence? Here is an example. Period or no period?
> 
> *please go to our on line password request link **
> http://www.xxxxxx.com/SupportAndServices/Request_Login*<http:/
> /www.xxxxxx.com/SupportAndServices/Request_Login>
> * For your protection and ours, we cannot provide this information via
> email.*
> 
> Sometimes people copy and paste instead of clickng the link. 
> So yes, it is
> true, it is a PDF and not everybody has a way to copy it but 
> I tend to think
> that a period at the end of a path is an extra invitation to error.
> 
> What is your opinion regarding the issue.
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