----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kastrup" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: Texinfo help, please
"Phil Holmes" <[email protected]> writes:
I'm doing a little project to get rid of all the black bars on the
right side of the PDF of the NR - these indicate material that is too
wide to be properly accommodated on the page. One of the things that
causes this is text like:
Fret diagrams for the ukulele are contained in the file
@file{predefined-ukulele-fretboards.ly}.
This produces output as seen in the attached image.
There are a number of examples where texi2pdf clearly does not
calculate line width correctly when the @file{} is used.
It just does not wrap.
It should wrap between the words "the file" and the filename. If I was to
follow my own suggestion, I would do this:
Fret diagrams for the ukulele are contained in the file @*
@file{predefined-ukulele-fretboards.ly}.
The simplest answer would be to force a line break with @*, but does
anyone know an alternative, better way? If I don't get suggestions
that work, I'll go ahead and force the line breaks.
How do you break a file name anywhere except behind a slash? Breaking
anywhere else either looks strange or does not make it clear whether or
not a hyphen is supposed at the break.
I don't expect the filename to break/wrap - it's the text around it that
should.
It makes more sense to reword, like
The file @file{predefined-ukulele-fretboards.ly} contains the fret
diagrams for the ukulele.
Putting the unlikely-to-break-well material near the start of the
paragraph gives you the best chances to get by.
That will work well with this specific example and I will probably follow
it. There are other examples where there are, for example, 2 filenames one
after the other, and texi2pdf insists on putting these on a single line,
thus overflowing, rather than breaking between them, which would be
perfectly suitable.
--
Phil Holmes
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