how to format wide terminal output?

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Robert Lauriston

July 14, 2014 17:41

I'd documenting a command-line utility with output 125 characters wide. The output is in a tabular format so it's essential that the lines not wrap.

How can I format that so it will fit within the margins without wrapping when I export to PDF? Can I create a variation of <pre> with font-size="xx-small" or something like that?

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  Nils Bier July 15, 2014 12:41

  Hi Robert,

  did you already had a look at the following page in our documentation: https://www.k15t.com/display/PDF/How+Can+I+Deal+with+Wide+Tables

  Does that help?

  Cheers,
  Nils

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  Robert Lauriston July 15, 2014 15:33

  No, this isn't a table. It's plain text, the output of a command-line utility. For example:

  ============ SERVER 192.168.1.12:5701 =======================================================================================

  = Name                                      Version                                 Free Mem            CPU%      Uptime    =

  = ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =

  = 192.168.1.12:5701                         1.0.0-SNAPSHOT (13a78a9357)             840Mb               .         01:15:14  =

   

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  Robert Lauriston July 15, 2014 23:01

  I tried adding inline CSS to the <pre> tag in the XHTML source, that changes the size in Confluence but it has no effect on the PDF output.

  I only want to use this format in a few places. I don't want to make all preformatted text smaller.

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  Nils Bier July 16, 2014 07:47

  Hi Robert,

  have you tried creating a user-macro and wrap the text in this usermacro?

  E.g. you could create a new user-macro called "command" like in the attached screenshot.

  Then add the following CSS to the Content Formatting section in your PDF template:

  p.command {
      font-size: x-small;
  }

  This will output all text wrapped in the macro in font-size "x-small".

  Does this help?

  Cheers,
  Nils

   

  
  
  
  Screen Shot 2014-07-16 at 09.42.10.png

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  Robert Lauriston July 16, 2014 16:57

  I used this macro:

  <pre class="pre-small">$body</pre>

  And this in Content Formatting:

  pre.pre-small {
  font-size: smaller
  }

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  Robert Lauriston July 16, 2014 23:42

  Shouldn't this prevent page breaks within the block?

  pre.pre-small {
  font-size: smaller;
  page-break-inside: avoid !important;
  }

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